As all History must converge2 to Opera in the Italian Style, however, their Tale as Commemorated3 might have to proceed a bit more hopefully. Sup?pose that Mason and Dixon and their Line cross Ohio after all, and con1?tinue West by the customary ten-minute increments,— each installment5 of the Story finding the Party advanc'd into yet another set of lives, another Difficulty to be resolv'd before it can move on again. Behind, in pursuit, his arrangements undone6, pride wounded, comes Sir William Johnson, play'd as a Lunatick Irishman, riding with a cadre of close Indian Friends,— somehow, as if enacting7 a discarded draft of Zeno's Paradox8, never quite successful in attacking even the rearmost of the Party's stragglers, who remain ever just out of range. Yet at any time, we are led to believe, the Pursuers may catch up, and compel the Surveyors to return behind the Warrior9 Path.
Longer Sights, easier Grades, wider Night Skies, as the landscape turns inside-out, with Groves10 upon the Prairie now the reverse of what Glades11 in the Forest were not so many chains ago. Far less ax-work being requir'd, soon the Axmen are down to Stig alone, who when ask'd to, becomes a one-man assault force on behalf of the Astronomers12. The Musick, from some source invisible, is resolutely13 merry, no matter what it may be accompanying.
One late Autumn, instead of returning to the Coast, the Astronomers will just decide to winter in, however far west it is they've got to...and after that, the ties back in to Philadelphia and Chesapeake will come to mean that much less, as the Pair, detach'd at last, begin consciously to move west. The under-lying Condition of their Lives is quickly estab-lish'd as the Need to keep, as others a permanent address, a perfect Lat?itude,— no fix'd place, rather a fix'd Motion,— Westering. Whenever they do stop moving, like certain Stars in Chinese Astrology, they lose their Invisibility, and revert14 to the indignity15 of being observ'd and avail?able again for earthly purposes.
Were they to be taken together, themselves light and dark Sides of a single Planet, with America the Sun, an Observation Point on high may be chosen, from which they may be seen to pass across a Face serene16 and benevolent17 at that Distance, tho' from the Distance of the Planet, often, Winter as Summer, harsh and inimical.
Into the Illinois, where they find renegade French living out a fantasy of the Bourbon Court, teaching the Indians Dress-making, Millinery, Wine-Growing, Haute Cuisine18, orchestral Musick, Wig-Dressing, and such other Arts of answering Desire as may sustain this Folly19. They believe Mason and Dixon to be Revolutionary Agents.
Descending20 great bluffs21, they cross the Mississippi, the prehistoric22 Mounds23 above having guided them exactly here, by an Influence neither can characterize more than vaguely24, but whose accuracy is confirm'd by their Star observations, as nicely as the Micrometer and Nonius will per?mit. They stay at villages of teepees where Mason as usual behaves offensively enough to require their immediate25 departure, at a quite inconvenient26 time, too, for Dixon and his Maiden27 of the day, who've both been looking forward to a few private moments. Instead, the Astronomers spend the rest of their Day running from the angry Villagers, and only by Fool's Luck do they escape. They subsist28 upon Roots and Fungi29. They watch Lightning strike the Prairie again and again, for days, and fires rage like tentacles30 of a conscious Being, hungry and a-roar. They cower31 all night before the invisible Thunder of Bison herds32, smelling the Ani?mal Dust, keeping ready to make the desperate run for higher ground. They acquire a Sidekick, a French-Shawanese half-breed Renegado nam'd Vongolli, whose only loyalty33 is to Mason and Dixon, tho' like the Quaker in the Joak, they are not so sure of him. When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discov-er'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the Streets in attitudes of living Business, embalm'd with Gold divided so finely it flows like Gum, it is Vongolli, with his knowledge of Herbal Formulas, who provides Mason and Dixon with the Velocity34 to avoid an otherwise certain Dissolution.
Far enough west, and they have outrun the slowly branching Seep35 of Atlantic settlement, and begun to encounter towns from elsewhere, com?ing their way, with entirely36 different Histories,— Cathedrals, Spanish Musick in the Streets, Chinese Acrobats37 and Russian Mysticks. Soon, the Line's own Vis Inertiae having been brought up to speed, they dis?cover additionally that 'tis it, now transporting them. Right in the way of the Visto some evening at Supper-time will appear the Lights of some complete Village, down the middle of whose main street the Line will clearly run. Laws continuing upon one side,— Slaves, Tobacco, Tax Lia?bilities,— may cease to exist upon the other, obliging Sheriffs and posses to decide how serious they are about wanting to cross Main Street. "Thanks, Gentlemen! Slaves yesterday, free Men and Women today! You survey'd the Chains right off 'em, with your own!"
One week they encounter a strange tribal38 sect39, bas'd upon the worship of some celestial40 Appearance none but the Congregation can see. Hun?gry to know more about the Beloved, ignoring the possibility of a nega?tive result, recklessly do they prevail upon the 'Gazers to search scientifickally, with their Instruments, for this God, and having found its position, to determine its Motion, if any. It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus41. The Lads, stunn'd, excited, realize they've found the first new Planet in all the untold42 centuries since gazing at the Stars began. Here at last is the Career-maker each has dreamt of, at differing moments and degrees of Faith. "All we need do is turn," cries Mason,— "turn, Eastward43 again, and continue to walk as we ever have done, to claim the Prize. For the first time, we may forget any Obligations to the current Sky,— for praise God (His ways how strange), we need never work again, 'tis t'ta to the Mug's Game and the Fool's Errand, 'tis a Royal Entrance at Life's Ridotto, 'tis a Copley Medal!"
"Eeh!" Dixon amiably44 waves his Hat. "Which half do thou fancy, obverse or reverse?”
"What?" Mason frowning in thought, "Hum. Well I rather imagin'd we'd...share the same side,— a Half-Circle each, sort of thing—"
Yet by now they can also both see the Western Mountains, ascending45 from the Horizon like a very close, hitherto unsuspected, second Moon,— the Circumferentor daily tracking the slow rise in vertical46 angle to the tops of these other-worldly Peaks. They are apt to meet men in skins, and Indians whose Tongue none of the Party can understand, and long strings47 of Pack-Horses loaded with Peltry, their Flanks wet, their eyes glancing 'round Blinders, inquiring... Survey Sights go on now for incredible Hundreds of Miles, so clear is the Air. Chainmen go chaining away into it, and sometimes never come back. They would be re-discover'd in episodes to come, were the episodes ever to be enacted48, did Mason and Dixon choose not to turn, back to certain Fortune and global Acclaim49, but rather to continue West, away from the law, into the savage50 Vacancy51 ever before them—
"The Copley Medal!" Dixon trying to get into the spirit of things.
"Attend me,— nothing would lie beyond our grasp. We would be the King's Own Astronomers, living in a Palace, servants to obey our desires! Weighty stipends52, unlimited53 Credit! Wenches! Actresses! Observing Suits of gold lame54! Any time, day or night, you wanted,— what do you people eat? Haggis! You want a Haggis after Midnight, all you need do is pull upon a bell-cord, and hi-ho!"
"Tha've certainly sold me," nods Dixon, gesturing with his broad hand at the Sun-set, which happens tonight to be wildly spectacular. "Yet all those — "
Mason nods back, impatiently. "They will have to live their lives with?out any Line amongst 'em, unseparated, daily doing Business together, World's Business and Heart's alike, repriev'd from the Tyranny of resid?ing either North or South of it. Nothing worse than that, whatwhat?"
"How, then. Should we never again come West?"
"Should we ever be permitted to? Either by the King, or by the Amer?icans? Think not, Lensfellow. If we do turn, and go back now, 'twill have to be a Continental55 D.I.O., forever."
"How Emerson will despise me—"
"As you've already taken money from the Royal Society,— isn't that, in his View, unredeemably corrupted56?”
"Thankee, I'd nearly forgotten...?"
"Lethe passes to each and all,— yet vivid in Attention must the Degree of our Day's Sinfulness be ever kept."
"What ever did Sinners do, before there were those to tell them they were sinning?"
"However blissful their Ignorance, why they suffer'd."
"Bollocks. They enjoy'd themselves," Dixon mutters. "I was there. Another expell'd from Paradise, another Lad upon the North Road, seek?ing his daily Crumbs57...."
Countryfolk they meet again are surpris'd to see them, sometimes shock'd, as at some return of the Dead. Mothers drive their small ones like Goslings away to safety. Bar-room habitues reprove them at length,— "You weren't ever suppos'd to be back this way,—
"Ev'ryone said you'd done with all that to-and-fro by 'sixty-eight, left it to the other side of th' Ohio, and 'twould be Westward58 from there and then on, for you two, or nothing."
"We took yese in among us,— allow'd ye to separate us, name us anew,— only upon the Understanding, that ye were to pass through each of our Lives here, but once."
"We believ'd you exactly that sort of Visitor, not...the other sort. We've enough of those here, the Lord knows, already,— Indian, White, African, aswarm well before the Twilight,— we hardly need more."
"How dare you come back now, among these Consequences you have loos'd like Vermin?"— and so on. Babies take one look at them and burst into tears inconsolable. Boys but recently initiated59 to the ways of the Rifle take playful shots at them. A recently wed60 couple assault them, screaming, "Yes you came the proper pair of bloody61 little Cupids, didn't you, then just went polka-dancing away, leaving us to sort out his mother, the recruiting Sergeant62, the Sheriff, the other Girl,—
"— whilst ev'ry low-life you gentlemen caus'd to be suck'd into town in your Wake is ogling63 the Queen of Sheba, here, who never could keep her eyes to herself, and say what you will, Wife, my dear Mother has ever shewn the born grace and sense of the true lady.”
"D'you hear that then, you miserable64 cow? once again as I've ever been telling all you Scum, none of you's good enough for my Boy Adol-phus, 'specially65 not you, fifteen stone of unredeem'd Slut, my gracious just look at you,—
"Bitch!" the wife two-handedly swinging at her mother-in-law's Head a great Skillet, which none of the men present are hasty in rushing to deflect,— the older woman dodges66 the blow, and from somewhere pro4?duces a Dirk. In a moment, someone will have to load and prime a Pistol. All this having resulted from the award-winning "Love Laughs at a Line" episode, which seem'd but light-hearted Frolick that first time through.
In the next Village east, the Creature they thought they had so ratio?nally and with up-to-date methods prov'd to be but a Natural phenome?non has re-emerged, and holds in its sinister67 emprise the lives of that half of the Populace living upon one side of the Line.. .yet for some rea?son, it is reluctant to cross and continue its depredations68 upon the other. The Line is believ'd to present some Barrier, invisible but powerful enough to hold back the Being, to preserve those across it from the Fate of their former Neighbors. Brave townsfolk slip out after dark, dig up and move the Boundary-Stones, as far as they dare, some one way, some another. The Line thro' here soon loses all pretense69 to Orthogony, becoming a Record in Oolite of Fear,— whose, and how much,— and of how a Village broke in two.
In some Towns they are oblig'd to turn back Westward, often waiting until Dark to creep cautiously eastward again, for the Population will hear of them in no other way but Westering. When it seems there's a Chance that someone may listen, Mason and Dixon both try to explain about the new Planet,— but very few care. It breaks slowly upon the Astronomers, that with no time available for gazing at anything, this peo?ple's Indifference70 to the Night, and the Stars, must work no less deci?sively than their devotion to the Day, and the Earth for whose sake something far short of the Sky must ever claim them, a stove, a child, a hen-house predator71, a deer upwind, the price of Corn, a thrown shoe, an early Freeze.
At last the Post Mark'd West appears. A Joint72 Delegation73 from the American and Royal Societies, alerted by Jesuit Telegraph, is there to
greet them. A new and iridescent74 generation of Philadelphia Beauties in full Susurrus and Chirp75 line both sides of the Visto. A Consort76 of Crumhornes is on hand, playing Airs and Marches. 'Tis the Ineluctable Moment of Convergence. Will somebody repent77, ere they arrive?
When they reach the Post Mark'd West, one swerves78 a bit North and the other South of it, and on they go, together, up the East Line, to the shore of Delaware, into a Boat and across, dropping by, that day, to visit the McCleans at Swedesboro.
"Heard some Tales, Gents,— what'll yese do now?"
"Devise a way," Dixon replies, "to inscribe79 a Visto upon the Allan-tick Sea."
"Archie, Lad, Look ye here," Mason producing a Sheaf of Papers, flapping thro' them,— "A thoughtful enough Arrangement of Anchors and Buoys80, Lenses and Lanthorns, forming a perfect Line across the Ocean, all the way from the Delaware Bay to the Spanish Extre-madura,"— with the Solution to the Question of the Longitude81 thrown in as a sort of Bonus,— as, exactly at ev'ry Degree, might the Sea-Line, as upon a Fiduciary82 Scale for Navigators, be prominently mark'd, by a taller Beacon83, or a differently color'd Lamp. In time, most Ships prefer?ring to sail within sight of these Beacons84, the Line shall have widen'd to a Sea-Road of a thousand Leagues, as up and down its Longitude blos?som Wharves85, Chandleries, Inns, Tobacco-shops, Greengrocers' Stalls, Printers of News, Dens86 of Vice87, Chapels88 for Repentance89, Shops full of Souvenirs and Sweets,— all a Sailor could wish,— indeed, many such will decide to settle here, "Along the Beacons," for good, as a way of coming to rest whilst remaining out at Sea. A good, clean, salt-scour'd old age. Too soon, word will reach the Land-Speculation Industry, and its Bureaus seek Purchase, like some horrible Seaweed, the length of the Beacon Line. Some are estopp'd legally, some are fended90 directly into the Sea, yet Time being ever upon their Side, they persist, and one Day, in sinister yet pleasing Coral-dy'd cubickal Efflorescence, appears "St. Brendan's Isle," a combination Pleasure-Grounds and Pensioners91' Home, with ev'rything an Itinerant92 come to Rest might ask, Taverns93, Music-Hails, Gaming-Rooms, and a Population ever changing of Practi?tioners of Comfort, to Soul as to Body, uncritickal youngsters from far-off lands where death might almost abide94, so ubiquitous is it there, so eas?ily do they tolerate it here.
Tis here Mason and Dixon will retire, being after all Plank-Holders of the very Scheme, having written a number of foresighted Stipulations into their Contract with the Line's Proprietor95, the transnoctially charter'd "Atlantick Company." Betwixt themselves, neither feels British enough anymore, nor quite American, for either Side of the Ocean. They are con?tent to reside like Ferrymen or Bridge-keepers, ever in a Ubiquity of Flow, before a ceaseless Spectacle of Transition.
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