M & D Duck Read

[Mark Thibodeau]

Yeah, that ampersand sure is BIG and PROMINENT on the front of the book
there, isn't it?

To my conspiratorial mind, those swoops and swirls look like the
traditionalist Mark of the Devil... three entwined sixes... 666!

Anybody else seeing this? And, if it's not just a coinkeedink, what does it
say about what PYNCHON wants to say about America?!

Mark (in full on Jerky LeBoeuf conspiracy mode)

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

>  On M&D cover and ampersand:
> - from the archives, Davemarc quoted an article in the NY Observer by
> Warren St. John, detailing the way in which TRP was involved in the cover
> creation: http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9705&msg=15495
> - this post is referred to in an article in French by Gilles Chamerois,
> available online, discussing the ampersand at length:
> http://www.revue-textimage.com/04_a_la_lettre/chamerois1.html
> - another article on the ampersand is by Samuel Cohen: Mason & Dixon & the
> Ampersand." Twentieth Century Literature 48.3 (2002): 264-291
>
> As for the dedicaton: young Jackson was at the time learning to read, I
> think - the boy was 7 at the time. So you can read the dedication as: for
> Melanie (now) and Jackson (later). My 2 euro cents.
>
> Good luck with this read -and best wishes for 2015 to all.
> Michel
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> So, first correction leading naturally to first observation and question.
> Last line below should have read " it is the embodiment not the notions
> that IS Mason & Dixon"...
> Pynchon insisted on the Ampersand and solid rumors are he helped 'design'
> the cover. He and Melanie had cover approval at least. Riff on that cover.
>
>  What meaningful differences exist if not "Mason and Dixon"?
>
>  Dedication: " For Melanie and for Jackson" ...not " for Melanie and
> Jackson".....Pynchon's precision singles each out, the separate individuals
> that they are.
>
>
>
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