MDDM ch.67: "Yet, does it live" (657.13)

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> When doesn't he?  Quite confusingly, Mason and Dixon cross each other's
> boundaries  (spiritual, intellectual) often in the book.  I don't have time
> now to go through and cite chapter and verse -- lots of this was discussed
> the first time around -- but if you're interested, you could cite the text
> if you think my suggestion is "wrong".

Just one more here....Dixon never wavers as a Quaker on matters of the
spirit. 
However, he is no longer technically a Quaker, as he was read out of
meeting. 
He drinks, smokes pot, beats a slave driver, wears a redcoat, doesn't
trust the Quaker institutions of power  --the two  conservative
movements--  etc.....but at the same time, when push comes to shove,
Dixon will exploit, even if it is only rumor, his Quakerism. 


My Paraphrase: You have heard that I am a Quaker and will not fight" 
and so on....settle his differences with a game or talk. So he certainly
seems to waver as a Quaker, if we look at the strict rules of the
Quaker. But there is an irony in all of these. He wears a red coat. Fox
and the Quakers taught that one should dress as Mason does. This is an
historical fact. P exploits every irony on this one. He wears it, he
says, to avoid conflict, so he won't be mistaken for an Elk and so on.