Fw: [New post] Duck Tales (Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon)
Jamie McKittrick
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Wed Dec 17 06:20:03 CST 2014
MAD DUCK: Mason & Dixon Deep Undercover Collective for Kenning
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Appetizer from BIBLIOKEPT, who is enjoying his own read.
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> 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.
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> Mason & Dixon: The Deep Duck Group Read. (no good acronymic)
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> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:58 PM, Biblioklept <
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> Biblioklept posted: "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" Respond
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> Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon)
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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.*
> *Biblioklept <http://biblioklept.org/author/edwinturner/>* | December
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