Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997)
Read Professor Irwin Corey's acceptance speech for Pynchon's 1974 National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow.
Also, have a look at Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow.
Bibliography
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Brewer, Dr. Ebenezer Cobham, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Centenary Edition revised by Ivor H. Evans, Harper & Row, 1817; On-Line Version
Mason, Charles, and Dixon, Jeremiah, The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Introduction by A. Hughlett Mason, American Philosophical Society, 1969
Porter, Roy, London: A Social History, Hamish Hamilton,1994
Pynchon, Thomas, Mason & Dixon, Henry Holt Co., 1997
Sobel, Dava, Longitude, Penguin Books, 1995
