M & D Deep Duck is hard

[Becky Lindroos]

I really like that,  Elizabeth -   ’tis a journey across a wide tome which we readers traverse,  hopefully charting our progress by some method - but we, unlike our heroes,  will not invite madness by trying to mark lines in our comprehension.  

Bek
 

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
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> Not sure of the connection here, something to do with the title of the post, but bear with me… Came across this paragraph in Mason&Dixon&Pynchon by Charles Clerc:
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> …prefers the more positive analogy made by Miles Harvey «between (betwixt) the reader’s progress through the book and Mason and Dixon’s trek through the wilderness.» In other words the authors prose might well be «mimetic of Mason and Dixon’s long and arduous journey.»
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> I had to start it 7 times first time I read M&D, my firs TP-book. It was hard. 
> Uhm, and judging from the above quote, perhaps it was meant to be?
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>> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 00.53 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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>> Cope tends to focus on the scientific importance of the Mason-Dixon
>> survey as an accomplishment of Enlightenment ingenuity applied to a
>> geographically and politically difficult problem.
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>> Two earlier surveys failed. To get the Line right. was hard.
>> "Enlightenment ingenuity".
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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