M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[rich]

who doesnt miss the days of browsing old bookstores. algorithms can never
take thee place of that serendipitous find. it leaves us all the more
poorer I think

rich

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:08 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Today's researchers lack that heady thrill of spending hours in the stacks
> of some world-class library, reading old manuscripts, and revealing
> heretofore unknown information to the general public.
>
> Laura
>
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The Friend - Volume 54 - Page 257 - Google Books Result
> >>>
> >>> 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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> >
> >-
> >Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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