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[Mark Kohut]

Appetizer from BIBLIOKEPT, who is enjoying his own read.

We have often given the read a name, often an acronymic name for Subject
line.
Let's throw some around while we are warming up our instruments.

Mason & Dixon: The Deep Duck Group Read. (no good acronymic)


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Back Inhabitants all up and down the Line soon begin taking the Frenchman's
Duck to their Bosoms, for being exactly what they wish to visit their lives
at this Moment,-- something possess'd of extra-natural Powers,--
Invisibility, inexhaustible Strength, an upper Velocity Range that makes
her the match, in Momentum, of much larger opponents,-- Americans desiring
generally, that ev'ry fight be fair. Soon Tales of Duck Exploits are
ev'rywhere the Line may pass. The Duck routs a great army of Indians. The
Duck levels a Mountain west of here. In a single afternoon the Duck, with
her Beak, has plow'd ev'ry Field in the County, at the same time harrowing
with her Tail. That Duck!
As to the Duck's actual Presence, Opinions among the Party continue to
vary. Axmen, for whom tales of disaster, stupidity, and blind luck figure
repeatably as occasions for merriment, take to shouting at their
Companions, "There she goes!" or, "Nearly fetch'd ye one!" whilst those
more susceptible to the shifts of Breeze between the Worlds, notably at
Twilight, claim to've seen the actual Duck, shimmering into Visibility, for
a few moments, then out again.
"I might've tried to draw a bead onto it, . . . but it knew I was there. It
came walking over and look'd me thump in the eye. I was down flat, we were
at the same level, see. 'Where am I?' it wants to know. 'Pennsylvania or
Maryland, take your pick,' says I. It had this kind of Expression onto its
Face, and seem'd jumpy. I tried to calm it down. It gave that Hum, and grew
vaporous, and disappear'd."
Mason and Dixon attempt to ignore as much of this as they may, both
assuming 'tis only another episode of group Folly, to which this Project
seems particularly given, and that 'twill pass all too soon, to be replaced
by another, and so on, till perhaps, one day, by something truly dangerous.

>From Chapter 45 of Thoma Pynchon's novel *Mason & Dixon.*
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