Mason & Dixon

by Thomas Pynchon

Bodkin

lambent

As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,— with all the secular

assailed

Sensorium,

Etesian

Pelog,

Batavia

Retinues

Dro...

Tuan!

Dagga,

ketjap,

Tamarind,—

sedan

Penumbræ

Temporally,

ovine

cognoscenti

Jocularity

Younkers

Gallant

Paean

Sylphs

Droster

Hinterland,

fenugreek,

lengkua.

Bilimbi

Bobotie,

Frikk...

caudal

Stuffata

volish

Sarong

Krees

“William of Orange,

Satay

venial,

Nidor

Patina

Gloucestershire,—

Deliverance,—

Transsubstantiation,

Adonises,

Eros,

twain.

Darkling Beetle

Elytra

lixiviated