Fw: [New post] Duck Tales (Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon)

[Mark Kohut]

I can like MAD DUCK. (I just today see the acronym involved. [Did we know
that Nabokov once wrote a story in which the first letters of each sentence
spelled
out a message?) We will not be repeating all the words in the subject line,
probably, since we're lazy and busy so for early Titling posts.

But I will suggest we call it M&D Duck, for absolute accuracy and ampersand
reasons to be explored.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:56 PM
>> Subject: Fw: [New post] Duck Tales (Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon)
>> To: me <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:58 PM, Biblioklept <
>> comment-reply at wordpress.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    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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>> <http://biblioklept.org/author/edwinturner/>  Duck Tales (Thomas
>> Pynchon's Mason & Dixon)
>> <http://biblioklept.org/2014/12/16/duck-tales-thomas-pynchons-mason-dixon/> by
>> Biblioklept <http://biblioklept.org/author/edwinturner/>
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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
>> 16, 2014 at 3:58 pm | Tags: Literature
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