Mason & Dixon

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Mason & Dixon
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiab Dixon (1733-1779) were tbe Britisb surveyors best remem-bered tor runmng tbe boundary betwcen Pennsylvania and M ary-lanJ tbat we know today as the M ason-l/ixon JLine. nere is th eir story as reimagmed by Tbomas Pyncbon, in an update d 18th-century növel íeaturing Native Americans and irontier folk, ripped bodices, naval wartare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major cafíeine anuse.
1' nreflectively entangled in crimes ot demarcation. Mason and Dixon take us along on a grand tour of tbe E nh^btenment s dark bermspbere. írom tbeír first journey toge tber to tbe Cape oí Good Hope. to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, mto tbe sbadowy yet redemptive turns of tb eir later lives. tbrougb íncon-gruj'ies in conscience. parallaxes ot personality. tales of question-a ble aititude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be íost.
A1 onn tbc way they encounter a plenfciful cast of cbaracters, including Benjámin... Tovább

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Mason & Dixon
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiab Dixon (1733-1779) were tbe Britisb surveyors best remem-bered tor runmng tbe boundary betwcen Pennsylvania and M ary-lanJ tbat we know today as the M ason-l/ixon JLine. nere is th eir story as reimagmed by Tbomas Pyncbon, in an update d 18th-century növel íeaturing Native Americans and irontier folk, ripped bodices, naval wartare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major cafíeine anuse.
1' nreflectively entangled in crimes ot demarcation. Mason and Dixon take us along on a grand tour of tbe E nh^btenment s dark bermspbere. írom tbeír first journey toge tber to tbe Cape oí Good Hope. to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, mto tbe sbadowy yet redemptive turns of tb eir later lives. tbrougb íncon-gruj'ies in conscience. parallaxes ot personality. tales of question-a ble aititude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be íost.
A1 onn tbc way they encounter a plenfciful cast of cbaracters, including Benjámin Franklin, George Washington, and Sámuel
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Johnson, as well as a Ch mese íeng shui master, a Swedish írreden-tist, a talkmg dog, and a robot duck. Tlie quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gotkic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic— pursue a linear narrative of irreg-
ular lives, observmg, and managing to participate m, the many
occasions of madness presented
th em by the Age of Reason.
THOMAS PYNCHON is the author of V., The Cryin g oí Lot 49, Gr a vi ty s
Rainbow, $low Learner, a collec-tion of short stories, and Vi ne-land. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974, Vissza