Template:RQ:Pynchon Mason & Dixon

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1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

Usage

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Thomas Pynchon's work Mason & Dixon (1st US edition), published by Henry Holt and Company in 1997 in New York. Note that the subdivisions in this work are commonly called "episodes" rather than "chapters", but on this template they are called chapters. The online version of this work is available at the Internet Archive:

Parameters

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The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1= or |chapter= - the number of the chapter quoted from.
  • |2= or |page=; or |pages= - the page number(s) quoted from.
  • |text= or |passage= - the passage to be quoted.

Examples

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  • Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Pynchon Mason & Dixon|chapter=9|page=88|passage=In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its '''Elytra''' the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here {{...}}}}
  • Result:
  • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 9, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 88:
    In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here []