rumors before Mason & Dixon

[Mark Kohut]

This is felt to be have been leaked--see the late lamented John Leonard--
from grant applicatications, or after granted, particulary the MacCarthur
Genius grant.

Some think that the mothra storyline was merged and narrowed and sea-changed within AtD but only TRP knows fer sure.

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Julien Nègre <julien_negre at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Julien Nègre <julien_negre at yahoo.com>
> Subject: rumors before Mason & Dixon
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:25 AM
> Re: the famous rumors in the 1980s
> saying that Pynchon was writing a novel on the
> Mason-Dixon Line.
> As others before me, the only consistent
> thing I have found is the famous 97-word 1978 Newsweek
> article by Bill Roeder :
>  
> Thomas
> Pynchon, the reclusive author
>  whose last book was "Gravity's Rainbow" in
> 1973, has two novels in the works. One is said to be a
> science-fiction thriller inspired by
> Pynchon's passion for
> "Mothra" and other Japanese horror movies. The
> other book involves the Mason-Dixon line, and
> Pynchon is now in England looking
> into the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the
> British surveyors who established the Pennsylvania-Maryland
> boundary in the eighteenth century. As part of his previous
> research,
>  Pynchon walked the 233-mile
> length of the Mason-Dixon line
> .
>  
> Any idea where that came from? (and should be
> expect a mothra novel soon?) Was there anything else beside
> this article?
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