M & D Deep Duck dress

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon IS Venus thru Cupid!. ..love it!!!

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:28 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> think i mentioned this during the first read but Dixon in all his splendor
> reminds me of the Captain Morgan rum fella (though he has blue breeches and
> not all red)
> I do have to thank Mr Dixon for helping me meet my better half who is a
> Quaker and whom I met a few years after M&D. was an easy ice-breaker for me.
> hey did you know kinda thing. it was fun
>
> is it belaboring the point but are we Americans in our soul some sort of
> composite of sad morose Mason and frisky freak Dixon?
> rich
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>> Quakers of this time put a strong emphasis on plain dress and muted
>> colors, greys natural browns. So  even their dress rehearsal has some role
>> reversal.
>> On Jan 13, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> > p. 17...To Dixon, Mason's colorless dress, a physical embodiment of
>> > melancholy, public clothing so nondescript he is 'nearly
>> > invisible"....
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>> > I remember how color in dress in history, purple and yellow for
>> > example, meant so much in AtD.
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