M&D Deep Duck 4-6: The Channel

[Keith Davis]

Very perceptive, Laura. Rock on...


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> On Jan 19, 2015, at 1:04 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> The English Channel:
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> It's an international strait now. Does anyone know what its status was back then? International or not, it served as an odd, amorphous, ill-defined border between two countries who were at war as Mason and Dixon sailed through on that fateful journey.
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> There was no imaginary line delineating this border, but one could imagine that M and D wished there was. What a relief to be able to say: You stay on your side of the border, we'll stay on ours.
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> What did M and D take away from this experience? Maybe, that borders can be a good thing?
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> When Cherrycoke says the Mason-Dixon line is meaningless, I think he's speaking for Pynchon. Pynchon doesn't like lines or borders, because they're unnatural, anti-indigenous, inherently colonialist. But M and D have just gotten a whopping lesson about what happens in the absence of discernible borders, and it's scared the shit out of them. Something to keep in mind as the group read continues.
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> Laura
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