Mason and Dixon, Pynchon has created a veritable universe, similarly bewildering and untamed, for readers to divide and conquer if they can. With his fanciful re-imagining of Messrs. The real Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, America’s original sub-dividers, took upon themselves the promethean task of imposing the first trace of order upon the wilderness that was the new world, drawing their famous line demarcating north and south. So where does that leave Thomas Pynchon, whose current offering Mason & Dixon weighs in at close to eight hundred pages – and of often-impenetrable stylized “old english” text, no less? Brevity, the aphorism has it, is the soul of wit. Mason, Thomson Francis Mason, John Mason, John Thomson Mason, Richard Chichester Mason.
Mason, Thomson Francis Mason, John Mason, John Thomson Mason, Richard Chichester Mason
ISBN: 0805058370 | ISBN-13: 9780805058376Ī sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Mos. The award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow follows mismatched British surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as they make their way. ISBN: 0312423209 | ISBN-13: 9780312423209Ĭharles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and.
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