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[Irving Schwartz]

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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">What about it are you finding moving? I recall the ending moving me to</span>
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And welcome back... the P-list doesn't evolve, it just mutates.

.............</tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>The beauty of certain passages. I read the opening line to chapter 7 repeatedly before moving on. Having seen and photographed the Transit of Venus in 2012, the Cape Town saga is very moving to me. I enjoy reading Mason's explanation to the ladies of the Transit and looking at the photo. Cherrycoke in Philadelphia to attend Mason's funeral. Mason grieving the death of his wife. The chemistry between Mason and Dixon. The grand themes of science and reason and faith and mysticism. The humor. The memories of looking deeply into the novel with an amazing cast of Pynchon listers. Reliving the gooseflesh of opening a large tattered volume of the Proceedings of the Council of Maryland in the library at UC Santa Barbara and seeing Pynchon's account of the Thomas Hynes wedding almost verbatim before me. Reading it now for pleasure, without looking up every damn reference. The beauty of certain passages.</tt></pre>
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