bookhater17’s Reviews > Mason & Dixon > Status Update

“‘Why, to help you find out how much,—‘’— and how foolishly,—‘’— we have to spend, perhaps!’ sing Mason and Dixon”

This book is to surveying as Heated Rivalry is to hockey

“‘I wish I knew where my Affection for you runs,— one moment 'tis sure as the heart-yarn of a Mainstay, the next I am entertaining cheerfully Projects in which your Dissolution is ever a Feature.’”

This is Pynchon’s best novel simply because the faux 18th century style writing bars from him his beloved “sez”

“"As if... there were no single Destiny," puzzles Mason, "but rather a choice among a great many possible ones, their number steadily diminishing each time a Choice be made, till at last 'reduc'd,' to the events that do happen to us, as we pass among 'em, thro' Time unredeemable,— much as a Lens, indeed, may receive all the Light from some vast celestial Field of View, and reduce it to a single Point.”

Time to become the most annoying person at work again; to ascend once more to my throne and regain the title that is rightfully mine