M & D Deep Duck is hard

[Monte Davis]

And a term of art, per Wikipedia:

   1. *Traverse* is a method in the field of *surveying* to establish
   control networks. It is also used in geodesy. *Traverse* networks
   involve placing *survey* stations along a line or path of travel, and
   then using the previously *surveyed* points as a base for observing the
   next point.


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >
>
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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