MDMD2: Magnetical Stupors

[Paul Nightingale]

In Ch3 the narrative-as-C18th-pastiche is disrupted by the exchange in
dialect between Mason and Dixon (p15). This is followed by Dixon's attempt
at a joke; he apologises for his Corsican accent and is then cut short
before we are allowed to see a textual rendering of the Proper
Englishwoman's response (p16).This would be Dixon, who has 'learned' to
'overcome' his regional accent, and thereby go some way to disguising his
personal history, reproducing the standard English spoken by a Lady