grgr (25): the fork in the road america never took

[Coffey, Mitchell R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otto Sell [mailto:o.sell at telda.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 3:27 AM
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> The Road Not Taken
>      Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 
[...]
 
> (Robert Frost)
> 
> Otto
> http://www.itap.de/homes/pynchon/gr54.htm
> http://www.itap.de/homes/otto/pynchon/frost.htm


This poem strikes me as applying, withal, to M&D.  I took the Mason-Dixon
line, the clear-cut border between slave and free states, as metaphor for
America's original sin and where we didn't go.


Mitchell Coffey
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"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

   - Herman Melville, Moby Dick