M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[Becky Lindroos]

> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:36 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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> Nice find. Could Pynchon have come across this quote while doing background research on Quakers?


Mason & Dixon was published in 1997 - but TRP had worked on it since 1975.   By 1996 the internet was pretty well abloom with browsers and search engines,  although not Google.  TRP was/is not a Luddite about this anyway  - his article “Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?”  was in 1984!   I wonder if access to the internet could have prolonged the writing/editing process,  an additional resource for quotes and Quaker history and so on -   lol - 

We’ve got it so easy.  
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

Bek 


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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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>> The Friend - Volume 54 - Page 257 - Google Books Result
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>> https://books.google.com/books?id=10crAAAAYAAJ
>> 1881 - Society of Friends
>> ... voyage by a French privateer, but was soon released by the
>> commander of the latter, who honorably remarked, 'France is not at war
>> with the sciences.' " Soon ...
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