M & D Deep Duck is hard

[Becky Lindroos]

Thank you,  Elisabeth -  I used it deliberately because I think it is rather rare and TRP sprinkles it through M&D.   It basically means to travel across - AND!  it’s the last name of some of the main characters in AtD and a few in Vineland -

Bek


> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
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