MDMD(1)--Dixon's Joke

[Jeremy Osner]

RICHARD ROMEO wrote:
> 
> spoiler
> 
> I'm sure Andrew will bring this up for part 1 butcould Dixon's
> unexplained joke about a Jesuit, Corsican, Chinamen somehow relate to or
> allude to the coming of Napoleon and the bloodheds in the early
> 19C--notice the Jesuit/Sino global connection mentioned later in the
> book.
> Richard Romeo
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Any idea why Mason chastens him for starting to tell the joke? I have an
idea that that was a very key introduction to Mason's character, but I
couldn't make head nor tail of it.

Jeremy