suddenly fascinated by feminism

[Don Higgins]

Now I'm on 130ish of MandD.  You have the four Vroom women, and the Slave.  There's also Euphrenia, who has promise, lovely name anyway.  (Speaking of characters, why is the fellow Astronomer on St. Helena called Mescaline, for peet's sake?  Jeez, Pynchon has a one tract mind with the psychedelia--)


After Neville Maskelyne, from Mason and Dixon. Maskelyne was sent at the same time as M and D to record the Transit of Venus on St. Helena. He became Astronomer Royal while they were in America.While Maskelyne is indeed a real person, the name is very suggestive of mescaline. The two do not seem to be "related."
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