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Boys south of the mason dixon unabridged on apple books. Unlike gravitys rainbow, the humor is not surrounded by pornographic violence. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between charles mason and jeremiah dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in cape colony, saint helena, great britain and along the masondixon. Here is their story as reimagined by thomas pynchon, featuring native americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse.
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