MDDM: ch. 67 "Garden Pests"

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"Dagga" reminds me of the cape, as well. If these tenant farmers
are not natives, than who are they? Interesting that the incremental
nature of the increase in size of the veggies is used by Dixon to
cast doubt on the existence of the "Faith-challenging Specimens"
further west, which bring into question "the very Creation..." 
Seems quite biblical to me, but it all may be part of a pipe dream.

Franklin is held up as a paradigm of the philosophical arts, but
even he would be unable to create such a yield. So the giant
Veggies, it would seem, are unique. Their existence challenges
both the biblical story of creation and the garden of eden,
as well as, the newly discovered powers of the enlightenment 
represented by Franklin. Neither god nor man created this
garden, a "place of Magick." This could be Wicks offering a
wink to the adults and some fun for the twins, or it could be
some other narrator, does it matter?


In a message dated 8/5/02 5:35:17 PM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:

<< The narrator's elaboration of Dixon's comment that "*Dagga* hath many
mysteries" implies that there eventually is a bit of a pot ("peace-pipe"?)
session between the "Indians!" and the two surveyors, and which is what ties
it back to the scene at Mount Vernon. The narrator sez: "One [mystery]
being, that talking about things, while not exactly causing them to happen,
does cause something,-- which is almost the same, though not quite. Unless
it is possible to smoke a Potatoe." (655.26-29) This is yet another example
where the narrator is fairly obviously not Wicks, imo.
 >>