M & D Deep Duck is hard

[Elisabeth Romberg]

No, you’re right Mark!
Also Becky, there’s that word traverse again in your beautiful sentence. It comes up in the beginning of Chapter 3 of M&D. I only heard it as a name in AtD before (Webb). Didn’t really know it was a word. It must mean work, right? Hard work? Like the Spanish ‘trabajo’?


> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 20.44 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> 
> And we remember TRP asking why we should expect our books to be 'easy"
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>> Haha Mark, yeah, for sure.
>> 
>> Bek, I think there is plenty of lines in both our paper copies though, right? Hehe.
>> 
>> 
>> Elisabeth
>> 
>>> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 20.10 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> I've confessed to (sort of) the same difficulty.....(but I wasn't
>>> woman enough to try that many times
>>> back when it was new. Only when I had time to make it my day job (for
>>> awhile, so to speak) did I finish it the
>>> first time so yes, maybe, but when I did have a different relation to
>>> it....I did find more humor even in the first reading than
>>> what must the M &D's trek was like..?!?
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>> ...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.>>
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 00.53 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Two earlier surveys failed. To get the Line right. was hard.
>>>> "Enlightenment ingenuity".
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