M&D readins c1p1

[Alex Colter]

The most interesting piece of furniture is probably the Card-Table,
wandering Heart, hidden compartments... maybe left over from LeSpark's
earlier days?

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> *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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