M&D readins c1p1

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Okay, if I'm following you right, your reading is somewhere on page 2.
 That was Friday.  Have you had a chance to...read any more?  I'm on 200,
and at first, when I first noticed your posts earlier today, I was
delighted, you'll be caught up in no-time and I'll enjoy joining in.  But
now I'm scribbling some calculations here and, it's not looking good, for
me....one and one half pages per three days, that's being the awesomely
optimistic Dasein I am, that you'll post another one and a half tonight, or
today sometime, who knows how to calculate mathematics on this here I can
barely count, there's the physicist fellow who knows Nietzsche, do you also
do math?  What's--how long til page, hang on lemme be exact, 207, exclaims
my bookmark!  Fuck her!  Either the very end of chapter 20 or start of
chapter 21.

If I recall, Mason just confronted his father, Sr., about confiscating
Jr.'s kids, to not so positive achievement.

But I can come back to the middle of page 2, that's cool.  Not like I
remember any of it.  Something tells me that soon MandD will be in a local.
 One more grand wead before the booze kills you, it's all good...

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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