I’ll be frank: for most of my time reading this book, I had Wikipedia open to look up unfamiliar terms, or even those I could understand contextually, and it paid off. Wicks Cherrycoke: an unreliable narrator relating the story of two doubly unreliable narrators. Much like in the study of history itself, the eponymous Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon are less important as individuals in themselves than as crude lenses, refracting motifs, themes, events, dreams, narratives – their own story and the story of those they happen across doubly refracted by our humble narrator, the Rev. Pynchon’s works have – for me, at least – penetrated deeper into the history, culture, subconcious internal world and its imprint on the concious universe outside and around the globe than any other American novelist.
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