When (and how) does the Mason & Dixon group reading begin?

[Mark Kohut]

I bought a new paperback for underling and stuff but I have been reading my hardback. 
Thicker paper makes a difference as story, each page like thicker parchment (so to speak) 

How it works: I say stuff, I ask questions, I will point to the text a LOT, I hope we all do. The text rules, we make our cases with it; we " refute" with it. I will often be posting lots before responses 
Can come in. ( I get up early US time) But responses can come anytime to all posts and threads. 

I will often be as granular as espresso; I will be speculative unto "Wha? " Challenge me. I will be offering a " reading" when I can, which, with Pynchon and that vaunted " ambiguity" [meaning richness of associations, allusions everywhere] does not preclude other 'correct' meanings and readings. But I do not think 'anything goes' in interpretation so will say so. I can always be wrong, of course.

 I have read and reread Pynchon all my life, a lot in recent years; have been called a ' fanboy' and must embrace that since true. My bags are literary and philosophical, cheaply made and full of holes. 

I will try to keep this in mind as I post: Some critic or philosopher, it may have been Wittgenstein, said something like: with Art, sometimes you just have to say," See how beautiful, original, well-crafted, full of wit, full of humanity, full of life, insight, etc. thus and such is."  M & D is so WITTY that as we--I--put down some prosaic meanings, ideas, notions that of course are not exclusive to the book, I do not want to forget it is the embodiment not the notions that are Mason & Dixon. 


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> On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:31 AM, M Thomas Stevenson <m.thomas.stevenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now! (And by reading.) Me too, I love this big, ugly, thickly beige monster. Two weeks to read first three sections isn't it.
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> On 4 January 2015, at 07:05, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've got my big ol' hardback edition out and ready and I can't hardly wait!
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> I look forward to giving this one a nice close read!
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> Jerky / Mark
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