Mason & Dixon

by Thomas Pynchon

pongee

Sally Lunn,

Menial.

Sapperton,

Force majeure

mombly

lien

He believes that bread is alive,— that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a single purposeful individual,— that each Loaf is so organized, with the crust, for example, serving as skin or Carapace,— the small cavities within exhibiting a strange complexity, their pale Walls, to appearance smooth, proving, upon magnification, to be made up of even smaller bubbles, and, one may presume, so forth, down to the Limits of the Invisible.

carnescent

Succedaneum

Golden Valley

Stultification

Eurydice

subjunctive,

“Sumatra,

Nabobs?”

bespeak

Orrery,

Gothicism

Druid!

Philosophe.

pallid,

pinguid,

Loyolan

Dubiety,

Pelf.—

Auckland,