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	Mason-Dixon line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mason and Dixon's actual survey line began south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extended from a benchmark east to the Delaware River and west to what was then the boundary with western Virginia (now the state of West Virginia).
		The Mason-Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a line of demarcation between states in the United States.
		Thomas Pynchon has written a fictional book about the construction of the Mason-Dixon Line named Mason and Dixon, first published in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mason-Dixon_line (1337 words)

	reVIEW --
		At least as "secondary" to his own narrative as Mason and Dixon, Cherrycoke construes his/humankind's position among the lines of influence and causality as contingent at best, manipulated at worst; with such odds, tellers of tales should spin the tale properly, which is to say, non-linearly:
		Mason and Dixon, remarkably ordinary guys, persist through this novel with an innocence of power unimaginable except in a world as sprawling and a power structure as decentralized or at least as untraceable as any modern bureaucracy.
		No one believes Cherrycoke's complete reliability: even his own extended family (with a shadowy plot of their own), listeners to the long tale of Mason and Dixon, occasionally call Cherrycoke on charges of untruthfulness: "No proof.
	www.altx.com /ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm (2077 words)

	Enterzone 11: Linear Pynchon
		Even the story of Mason and Dixon's westward movement along their dividing line often turns back on itself as the expedition must return east to double check their demarcations, avoid natural obstacles, prepare for extremes of weather, or avoid the threat presented by the natives in the open wilderness.
		The stars Mason uses for guidance are sometimes blocked by clouds, and Dixon's plumb line and compass needle are sometimes rendered useless by the ore in surrounding mountains.
		Mason is a somewhat dour English astronomer with a respect for convention but a desire to achieve transcendance while Dixon is a Scottish surveyor who enjoys sensual pleasures and tends to question authority.
	ezone.org /ez/e11/articles/pelovitz/masondixon.html (1822 words)

	Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon, Reading Group Guide, by Henry Holt and Company Publishers of Quality Books
		As they punch the line westward, Mason and Dixon begin to suspect they are at the mercy of forces invisible, and that the line they are creating is no mere boundary but something more powerful and potentially much more evil.
		Mason and Dixon reunite and sail back to London, where Mason unsuccessfully attempts to reconcile with his two young sons and come to terms with both his father and the dead Rebekah.
		There are actually two narratives taking place simultaneously in Mason and Dixon: the story of Mason and Dixon and the framing narrative, set in the LeSparks' living room many years later, as the Reverend Cherrycoke tells his tale.
	www.henryholt.com /readingguides/pynchon.htm (1781 words)

	Saving the Mason-Dixon Line
		Mason and Dixon used the stars to calculate this path through the wilderness and mark out the 233-mile-long boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the 83 miles long north-south boundary between Maryland and Delaware; the effort took five years.
		In 1763, Mason and Dixon landed the monumental task of resolving an 80-year property dispute between the Calvert family of Maryland and Penn family of Pennsylvania, and were asked to lay stone markers indicating the boundary.
		Dixon was a surveyor from Cockfield in Durham County in England, and was educated by John Bird, a renowned maker of high precision astronomical instruments.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/04/0410_020410_TVmasondixon.html (682 words)

	The Mason-Dixon Line
		Mason and Dixon arrived Nov. 15, 1763, and by the time the line was accepted by Virginia, the task had consumed 23 years.
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon worked for 58 months in plotting much of the line between this state and Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (which included what is today West Virginia).
		The Pennsylvania members proposed for the western boundary a line to be drawn north from the end of Mason and Dixon's line, parallel to the winding eastern Delaware River border.
	www.gamber.net /gamber/mason-dx.htm (1070 words)

	review-5.997
		Mason & Dixon is thus a profoundly heterological novel, concerned with the strangeness of its own authority in a world founded upon the displacement of limits.
		But Mason & Dixon does contemplate what lies at the heart of time, albeit in modes of attenuated catastrophe, and its conjurations of that "non-place" unfold in the way that Emerson, his student Dixon, Mason and the narrator Wicks Cherrycoke all cease to be "characters" in a realist novel.
		Mason & Dixon is about a technological society only by first being technological, sustaining its own narrative desire to found, to originate, to be a world in its "disproportionate" multiplication of forces and effects.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-5.997 (3695 words)

	Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
		Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor, observer, living in the now, and Charles Mason, astronomer, widower, a contemplative, introspective chronicler of the passing of events, become one facet of a subtext of polarization that explores the dichotomies of slave versus free, religious tolerance and moral superiority, between mania and melancholy, eastern and western philosophy, even lumberjack versus werebeaver.
		Mason & Dixon was a hard book to pick up, but an even harder one to put down, a book that lets you in, shows you around a world that once existed.
		His tale of Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason comes from the time the Rev. spent with the team the two men took with them as they clear-cut their way due west through unforgiving terrain.
	greenmanreview.com /book/book_pynchon_masondixon.html (766 words)

	Pynchon's legal landscape
		Mason and Dixon isa sympathetic recreation of the commission of a spiritual crime, the story of two good men who, in the hire of great powers, draw a line across a virgin land and so limit it.
		The Mason-Dixon line inflicts on the world: A geometrick Scar, a sword-slash, a conduit for Evil.
		Compared to Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon is a celebration of life, from the first paragraph, a comfortable domestic catalogue that is a self-parody of the earlier novel's apocalyptic opening, to the contemplative ending, in its Huck Finnish evocation of the possibilities of an America the characters energetically embrace.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/siegel24.htm (3019 words)

	Mason & Dixon Reviews
		The scene in which the melancholic Mason is visited by the ghost of his late wife is both hair-raising and heartbreaking, and there is no better modern portrait of heroism than the moment when Dixon tears a bloody whip from a slave auctioneer's hand.
		In 1764 two Englishman, the astronomer Charles Mason and the surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, were hired by the Royal Society to settle the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
		Mason and Dixon itself is neither epic enough, nor passionate enough, to embody that myth.
	www.hholt.com /pynchon/md_reviews.htm (2126 words)

	Powell's Books - Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
		Mason and Dixon cannot foresee the bloodshed that will rage across their line a century later, during the U.S. Civil War, but both men, in Pynchon's telling, come to believe that they did something wrong to the wilderness....At its most eloquent, Mason & Dixon becomes an epic of loss."
		"Mason & Dixon is not only the most stunning novel I've read in the last twenty years, but one of the most stunning novels I've read, comma, period.
		Mason & Dixon is a groundbreaking book, a book of heart and fire and genius, and there is nothing quite like it in our literature, except Maybe V and Gravity's Rainbow."
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0805037586-0 (885 words)

	A&E May 22, 1997 -- cover story
		He describes Mason and Dixon's first encounters with each other in England, their meeting with the Reverend himself and their mutual voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, where the pair is sent by the Royal Society to observe the Transit of Venus.
		After their trip to the Cape of Good Hope, Mason and Dixon are separated briefly and then sent together on a mission to America to survey the disputed border between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
		Mason and Dixon get drawn into reading a trashy serial called The Ghastly Fop, a serial that is still running when Cherrycoke tells his tale.
	www.mndaily.com /ae/Print/1997/19/st/cspynch.html (1495 words)

	Mason-Dixon Line on Encyclopedia.com
		North and South: A "Mason Dixon" line dictates word choices in German vocabulary.
		PYNCHON'S MERRY `MASON and DIXON' A DISAPPOINTINGLY MUDDLED EFFORT.(Lifestyle)(Review)
		A compromise between two families in 1760 resulted in the appointment of Mason and Dixon.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MasonD1ix.asp (439 words)

	Haunting and Hunting: Bodily Resurrection and the Occupation of History in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
		Mason and Dixon's disastrous "moment" behind them prefigures the one before, and they at present haunt their own history, both in the past and future, neither of which is fully theirs.
		This is explained, apropos to the eighteenth century setting of Mason and Dixon, by Leo Braudy: "As the order of God loses explanatory force, there arises a longing for other orders....Before the Renaissance, God was the only Creator.
		Mason and Dixon, is a "historical" novel toying with the contemporary reader's sense of history, and history's inhabitants.
	www.reconstruction.ws /021/Haunting.htm (6304 words)

	Mason-Dixon Line
		The Mason and Dixon Line as surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767 is limited to the north-south line dividing present day Delaware and Maryland and the east-west line dividing Pennsylvania from Maryland and part of West Virginia.
		The difficulty many surveyors had prior to the Mason and Dixon survey was that the north-south line between Maryland and Delaware could not be made tangential to the 12-mile arc that originated from the church steeple in New Castle, Delaware.
		Yes, the Mason Dixon Line is the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland but if you take a ruler to a map at that border you will see that it crosses well into New Jersey, regardless of whether this was the intended purpose of this border.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm (4994 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre How a Quaker gets his oats
		Surveying a line by astronomical observation may seem a rational enterprise, but both Mason and Dixon have sold horoscopes in their time.
		Reading Mason &Dixon is like listening to eighteenth-century music on period instruments, then realising you are hearing blue notes aplenty, and samples from the charts.
		Whether Mason & Dixon most resembles a pack of cards, a battery or, indeed, a samurai pastry, it's clear that Pynchon's technique of laminating opposites research and fantasy, humanism and game-playing is what powers this mighty book.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,98972,00.html (956 words)

	Thomas Pynchon : Mason And Dixon : book reviews : spike magazine
		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.
		Mason and Dixon's task, to define the physical parameters of America, stands as a metaphor for the definition and creation of the country itself, as performed by the supposedly enlightened and rational explorers, colonists, founding fathers, kings, generals, venture capitalists, and adventurers who did so.
		Mason and Dixon, Pynchon has created a veritable universe, similarly bewildering and untamed, for readers to divide and conquer if they can.
	www.spikemagazine.com /0997pync.htm (748 words)

	Metroactive Books Thomas Pynchon
		For whatever reason, the dirt around Mason and Dixon's famous line would one day soak up a lot of blood.
		Mason and Dixon is a giant creation myth of America, far longer than Genesis, unfolding from the time before the nation was even a gleam in its future father's stoned eye.
		Mason and Dixon first speak of America as "another slave colony," one whose new inhabitants are "inclin'd to kill the People already living where they wish to settle."
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.26.97/books-9726.html (1022 words)

	THOMAS PYNCHON, MASON & DIXON
		Mason, abandoned by Rebekah since St. Helena, visits the jail where the Indians were slaughtered as if it were a shrine -- and Dixon "doubles" the visit later, dressed as Mason but wondering in his own way how this could possibly be made right.
		Dixon reveals her to be Maureen, an accomplished cook, and recommends her friend Pegeen to Mason.
		Dixon is astonished to recognise her from Raby Castle, where in his young manhood he spied on and fell for her from a distance, now flushing with pleasure when she recalls him favourably.
	webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/pynchon.html (4811 words)

	on Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon: Introduction
		Perhaps it was its subjects, Enlightenment science and the contradictions in American democracy that came to be marked by Mason and Dixon's famous line.
		Mason and Dixon's training exemplifies not only the world of Enlightenment science but also the emerging new understanding of cultural history created by Enlightenment thinkers and culminating in the philosophy of Kant and Hegel.
		Mason and Dixon's experiences while practicing science in the field, however, are another story, especially in Dixon's case.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html (1170 words)

	SF "Mason & Dixon" - Start
		Mason and Dixon is the story of the astronomer Charles Mason (1728-1786) and the surveyor Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) who attained fame through the draw of the borderline between the States of
		The book is divided into three parts: The transit of Venus which the surveyors watched in South Africa, the American expedition (by far the largest part, about two thirds of the novel) and and an appendix about the lives of Mason and Dixon after the expedition.
		Mason, after living in England for a while, takes his family to America.
	www.univie.ac.at /Anglistik/easyrider/data/pages/masondixon/index.htm (342 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mason and Dixon: Books
		Mason and Dixon are brought together to carry out astronomical observations, and Mason uses the stars to navigate his line across America.
		In the reference to stars, we have a pointer in the direction of the theme to come in Mason & Dixon - astronomy and the cosmos, at the time of a shift in society's relationship to it.
		Jeremiah Dixon was not the only famous Dixon however and many of his successors have a prestigious heritage, for example Cleopatras Needle which now stands on the banks of the Thames in London, England was transported by boat in a watertight capsule by a Dixon, which was quite a feat in those days.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099771918 (1076 words)

	Mason-Dixon Paso Fino Horse Association
		Mason Dixon hosts a show each June at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia and participates in Paso Fino classes at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania each October.
		Mason Dixon has an active trail riding program and trail riders are logging hours towards annual awards.
		The Mason Dixon Paso Fino Horse Association was incorporated in 1987.
	www.masondixonpfha.org (263 words)

	Counterfeiting America
		In a verse that serves as epigraph to the novel's second section, "America," the wandering bard and dispenser of heroic couplets, Timothy Tox, figures the Mason-Dixon line as one of the "geometrick Scars" with which its makers are destined "to mark the Earth."
		As Mason and Dixon are pushed, pulled, and penetrated by the "unlocaliz'd" input they encounter, they develop their capacity to respond to, and to care about, the presence of all this American-style otherness--Dixon, shortly before they leave America, even attacks a slave trader in the street, unchaining his slaves.
		In his first cameo appearance, George Washington recounts to Mason and Dixon the history of the Ohio Company, in which his brother played a prominent role and whose investments he had sought to protect in the French-Indian War; he gripes that it was not granted a charter similar to that awarded to the Penns.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/lawrence24.htm (3156 words)

	Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, book review
		Mason and Dixon has its humorous moments and passages of pure brilliance, but the story line is weak and hard to follow, with no clear conflict or antagonist.
		Here there is a narrative frame, with an old friend of Mason and Dixon telling their story to his own extended family, after the American Revolution.
		The historical setting of Mason and Dixon is in the mid 1700s, about 50 years after that of Sot-Weed.
	www.samizdat.com /isyn/pynchon.html (983 words)

	Pynchon
		Some years before the two came to America, Mason and Dixon set sail for the Indonesian isle of Sumatra to observe the Transit of Venus, a rare occurrence in which the planet traverses the course of the sun.
		It's in America that Mason and Dixon discover the lost civilization incarnate: Native Americans, who will only be massacred in the coming turf wars.
		But, like the Shakespeare play which it subtly invokes here and there, Mason and Dixon is also a winter's tale: mad, frivolous, fantastic, but also a thoughtful meditation on loss, redemption and time.
	www.scpronet.com /point/9706/p12.html (1352 words)

	Die Zeit - Feuilleton : Friedrich Kittler über Thomas Pynchons' langerwarteten neuen Roman, der eben in den USA erschienen ist
		"Mason and Dixon" löst sich Schritt um Schritt von der Wissenspolitik gelehrter Gesellschaften und versenkt sich statt dessen in die Konjunktive oder Möglichkeiten eines Erdteils, unmittelbar bevor er sich zu Vereinigten Staaten ernannte.
		Auf 773 Seiten stellt "Mason and Dixon" die Grenzen und Leerräume bereit, in denen alle amerikanischen Romane spielen werden.
		"Mason and Dixon", wie die guten alten historischen Romane seit Bulwer-Lyttons "Letzte Tage von Pompeji" oder Flauberts "Salammbô", darf aber von der Zukunft nur in Orakeln sprechen.
	zeus.zeit.de /text/archiv/1997/27/pynchon.txt.19970627.xml (1164 words)

	Eye - BOOKS - 05.15.97
		Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, astronomer and surveyor, are two 18th-century Englishmen in the service of a colonial power whose strength resides in knowledge and the application of science.
		The narrator of Mason & Dixon is the Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, the well traveled relative of a comfortably wealthy Philadelphia family who is welcome to stay so long as he can keep the younger members of the LeSpark clan diverted.
		Like Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon is rich with metaphors like this one, the response of one of the narrator's cousins to his aside that astronomical measurements are a form of "celestial trigonometry, by which the telescope transports us out into the sky to the object we wish to examine."
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.15.97/plus/books.html (859 words)

	Mason-Dixon line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mason and Dixon's actual survey line began south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and extended from a benchmark east to the Delaware River and west to what was then the boundary with western Virginia (now the state of West Virginia).
		The lines have been resurveyed several times over the centuries without substantive changes to Mason and Dixon's work.
		A "crownstone" boundary monument on the Mason-Dixon Line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mason-Dixon_line (1789 words)

	Amazon.com: Mason & Dixon: Books
		It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute.
		Mason & Dixon is a book about conflict--between man and nature, master and slave, science and religion, quaker and presbyterian, and, of course, between Mason (running away from tragedy and worried about life) and Dixon (ever seeking new adventures and hopelessly cheerful).
		When Mason confides to Captain Zhang that the unremitting forest disturbs him, his exotic companion replies that given that Adam and Eve, Buddha and Newton were all enlightened while sitting beneath trees, "A quick review would suggest that Trees produce Enlightenment.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805037586?v=glance (2562 words)

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