From Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon in which Charles Mason describes going to the site of what could be the Conestoga Massacre of 1764 where 16 Conestoga men, women and children were cruelly and maliciously slaughtered at the jail in Lancaster where they had sought refuge. The next Day, he creeps out before Dixon is [...]
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“The true River that runs ’round Hell”
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Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, Literature, tagged Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, labor unions, maine, michigan, new hampshire, politics, rightwing thuggery, Thoma Pynchon, unions, wisconsin, workers rights on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Neither has slept well for a Fortnight, amid the house-rocking Ponderosities of commercial Drayage, the Barrels and Sledges rumbling at all Hours over the paving-Stones, the Town on a-hammering and brick-laying itself together about them, the street-sellers’ cries, the unforeseen coalescences of Sailors and Citizens anywhere in the neighboring night to sing Liberty and wreack [...]
