suddenly fascinated by feminism

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Ah, 'tis funny, never ever crossed my mind Maskelyne might be a real
person.  Pynchon must have had a few laughs when he came across that in his
research.  And here I was, at the same time as reading MandD, looking into
whether Waynman Dixon might be any relation, the engineer who hammered into
the airshafts of the Queen's Chamber of Cheops, and who engineered the
theft of that obelisk to London (a gift from a moron Ottoman, still a
theft).  Dixon still might be, still haven't looked into it--

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Don Higgins <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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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