梅森与迪克森
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon · 初版 1997 年
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为什么值得读
- 文学批评、小说叙事与语言运用的巅峰之作
- 语言如莎士比亚般惊艳，阅读体验无比震撼
- 包含诸多荒诞幽默且令人捧腹的精彩桥段
故事从正统性存疑的牧师 Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke 的视角展开，他在一个寒冷的十二月夜晚试图取悦并逗乐他的大家族（部分是为了娱乐，部分则是为了保住自己在这栋宅邸中令人艳羡的客人地位）。Cherrycoke 声称自己曾一路陪伴 Mason and Dixon 的旅程，他讲述了一个将 Mason and Dixon 的生平传记与历史、幻想、传说、推测以及纯粹捏造相互交织的故事。
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在我看来，《万有引力之虹》不值得费劲硬啃，除非你特别喜欢绝妙的情节构造和粗俗的双关语。无论是作为对文学的评论、作为一部小说、作为一段文字，还是最核心的——作为一个故事，《梅森和迪克逊》都是品钦（迄今为止）最伟大的作品。 《第四十九号拍卖品的通告》则是个衬托——篇幅短小，故事毫无意义，唯一的价值也就是阅读体验本身了。
Gravity's Rainbow is not worth the slog, IMHO, unless you like beautiful plot constructions and vulgar wordplay. As a commentary on literature, as a novel, as a piece of writing, and most of all as a story, Mason & Dixon is (by far) Pynchon's greatest work. The Crying of Lot 49 is the foil—short, with a meaningless story only good for the experience reading it.
确实。在过去三年里，我重读了乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》（35年前我读到一半卡住了）和品钦的《梅森和迪克逊》（15年前我也卡住了）。我现在认为《尤利西斯》是我读过最好的书，而《梅森和迪克逊》也极其出色。 过程太繁复了。大家都以为存在某种不为人知的公式，能大大提高无论怎么定义的“成功”几率，对所有事
Yeah. In the last three years I picked up Joyce's Ulysses, which I sputtered out on 35 years ago, and Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, which I sputtered out on 15 years ago. I now believe that Ulysses is the best book I've ever read, and Mason & Dixon is very good. So much process. People think there's a formula, not well known, that greatly raises the chance for "success" however defined, for everyth
托马斯·品钦在《梅森和迪克逊》一书里对此做了一段极长又极搞笑的探讨：一位天文学家坐在酒吧里，所有人都在冲他抱怨自己平白丢了十一天，质问什么时候才能把这些天数还给他们，诸如此类。
This receives an extended, hilarious, discussion in Thomas Pynchon's book Mason & Dixon, in which an astronomer sits at a bar and everyone complains at him about losing their eleven days, and when they can have the days back, etc.
品钦的《梅森和迪克逊》也非常、非常棒。
Mason & Dixon by Pynchon is also very, very good.
如果你喜欢费曼，一定要去读詹姆斯·格雷克的传记《天才》。 其实我不太喜欢格雷克的其他书，但《天才》写得太精彩了。高中读完这本书后，我直接从原本打算选英语专业变成了主修物理专业。 至于纯粹的惊艳感，我总是推荐大家去读托马斯·品钦的《梅森和迪克逊》。读它就像读莎士比亚一样；刚开始
If you like Feynman, definitely read James Gleick's biography of him, Genius. I actually didn't like Gleick's other books very much, but Genius is beautiful. I went from thinking I'd major in English to majoring in Physics after reading it back in high school. And for general sheer amazingness, I always tell people to read Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. It's like reading Shakespeare; the first
托马斯·品钦的《梅森和迪克逊》。Goodreads 上的一篇书评很精辟地总结了它的内省特质： >这是一场漫步式的对话，在信仰与它的伴侣理性、自由意志与它的伴侣命运之间展开；我在书中读到，我应当向西行，与白昼同行，与时间、成熟、衰老、孕育子嗣、下一代的降临同行，与日落时分的渐渐消逝和散去同行——而如果我想向东
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. A review on Goodreads sums up the introspective qualities quite well: >it is a loping colloquy between Faith and its mate Reason, Free Will and its mate Fate; I read in it that I should make my way West to go with the day, with Time, maturation, aging, having children, the coming of the next generation, the slow fading and dispersal at sunset- and East if I wish t