M&D readins c1p1

[Lemuel Underwing]

*The Cape! The Wind! The Crew! The Clock! The Duck! ...g-giant stalks of
Hemp! *
I have to keep from drinking myself to death as I am living, in the wake of
the Transit, at my parent's home
as we sort some Legal Issues (marijuana, folks). This shall be part of the
Antidote.
So I'm going to be posting some of my "readings" of Mason & Dixon, possibly
my favorite book of all time.
*List-Characters & Rantings are Welcome!*
Let us start with p1c1:

*"Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs..."* (of course an allusion to the
beginning of Gravity's Rainbow)
*
starr'd* is an interesting word to use obviously intimating the shape
Snow-Balls make upon impact,
but could one possibly say, without a hint of the psychopathic, that the
V-2 'starr'd' the English Countryside?

We the readers, being the Children of the House, having coax'd corporeal
sweets from the kitchen
retire, evading a melancholy we may for a moment pretend to be blissfully
unaware of, to hear good Uncle P-err Cherrycoke
tell his stories, a sort of Sweet in themselves.

*"Here have come to rest a long scarr'd sawbuck table, with two mismatch'd
side-benches, from the
Lancaster County branch of the family, -- some Second-Street Chippendale,
including an interpretation of
the Fam'd Chinese Sofa..."*

Once while smoking a *J* I opened this book and had the realization that
the furniture listed here all have analogues in
characters throughout the book, I'm not sure how I came about this thought
but it's stuck with me.

*'scarr'd sawbuck table'*, unlike the 'starr'd' impacts of Snow-Balls, *these
*carefree assaults leave a lasting mark.

Will add more later,
now dinner.
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