Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/leafbyleaf
Talking about Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon while the sun attempts to melt my face. (The Transit of Venus features in the novel, but I couldn’t think of a clever joke to tie it into my heliocentric battle.)
Wiki site for Mason & Dixon:
https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
“Sloth” essay for the NYTBR:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html
Steven Moore books mentioned:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-novel-an-alternative-history-9781441145475/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-novel-an-alternative-history-1600-1800-9781441188694/