MDDM Ch. 70 Interdiction

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678-9 It's interesting that first off Mason is the one who wants to proceed
now, even though it was Dixon who previously had the "Westering" mania.

The conversation between them shows that Dixon is able to empathise with a
Native American perspective on what the Line portends, whereas Mason can't
get outside his Eurocentric rationalism:

"We'll show them. Let them look thro' the Instruments or something. Or they
can watch us writing."

"But those are Threats we do not make."

Then it's Dixon who wants to proceed: "Cheer's the ticket." Get them drunk.

Both are beset by indecision, tergiversation.

Is the end of Ch. 69, when "[t]hey wake" (from the dream which has been the
Commission), in fact the "moment of the Interdiction"?

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