MDDM Ch. 7 Jethro's tent

[Dave Monroe]

Opps, forgot to mention ... And, of course, this all
converges shortly thereafter with the sexually
proferred slave, Austra ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "... the residence of Cornelius Vroom and his wife,
> Johanna, and what seems like seven, and is probably
> closer to three, blond, nubile Daughters." (M&D, Ch.
> 7, p. 60)
> 
> "Blood, clearly rushing throughout Dixon, is
> detectable as well in faces and at bosoms and
> throats
> in this Jethro's Tent they've had the luck to
> stumble
> into." (ibid.)
> 
> First off, on that "what seems like seven," cf.
> Exodus 2: 11-21 ...
>  
> http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus2.htm
> 
> "What seems like seven" as in "seven daughters of a
> priest of Midian."  And leaving aside as well for
> the time being resonances with (both the historical
> and the fictionalized) Dixon's own intervention in
> the beating of a slave (M&D, Ch. 72, p. 695), point
> is, available daughters.  And how (e.g., pp. 62-4)
 
> Again, the point is, womenfolk made available, and
> to a stranger, a traveler, at that.  Jethro pimping
> his daughters to Moses.  Probably as much of an
> aside as anything can be in those Pynchonian texts,
> but, as always, a learned and clever one nontheless
> ...

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