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[https://www.loc.gov/item/91898509/ Library of Congress] [https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/items/6948ebb6-4026-4f35-a54e-aad09c32a66a A Plan of the boundary lines between the province of maryland and the three lower counties of delaware] == Featured Quote == [[file:bob-levin_redroom.jpg|thumb|75px|left]] <p>"As soon as I finished, I wanted to (a) immediately re-read it; (b) enroll in a one semester course devoted to nothing but its study; or ( c) stick it on the shelf and have nothing to do with it again. “Mason & Dixon” is a great novel; and I say this without having understood what seemed any more than, oh, ten percent."</p> <p class="clear"></p> <p class="clear"></p> == Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines== [[Help:Contents|'''Click here for help with editing and creating pages.''']] We have a few conventions we ask that you follow: * When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by '''[[Special:Allpages|checking the list of all Wiki pages on Pynchon Wiki]]'''. 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