M & D Deep Duck is hard

[Becky Lindroos]

Good grief I should have caught that!   Omg - Thank you,  Monte!   

Bekah

> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And a term of art, per Wikipedia:
> 	• 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.
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> 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 -
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> Bek
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>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
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>> 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’?
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>>> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 20.44 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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>>> And we remember TRP asking why we should expect our books to be 'easy"
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>>> 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
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>>>>> 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?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 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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