MDDM that Chicken 666.20

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There is something more important going on here than 
the question of who is actually narrating- although it
seems like Wicks- or whether Dixon is being serious. 
(He just might be.)

And that is the need to dominate and control, as becomes
clear after the Duck has been conned by the decoy and
relates the tale of her degradation by her maker, which, 
ironically, seems to have led to her freedom.

Might be a veiled commentary on certain apocryphal
versions of our own original relationship with the forces
responsible for our creation.


In a message dated 8/9/02 9:19:57 PM, millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<< "Risqué" (quaint word) I doubt even for the earthy 18th century -- where

its presence argues even more strongly, I think, for Wicks as narrator

here, well within the scope of what he's had to say elsewhere in the novel

-- and certainly not for the 20th century which Pynchon intermingles so

liberally  and anachronistically throughout M&D.



jbor:

>666.20 "I've been thinking about that Chicken today." (Mason)

>       "Aye, Ah knoah how lonely it gets out here, tho' aren't they said to

>    be moody...?" (Dixon)

>

>Again, this stand-up routine is way too risqué for Wicks and the drawing

>room context.




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