At 8:55 AM +1100 8/23/02, jbor wrote: >Dixon then lashes the cowering slave-drive with his own whip eight times Really? Where does Pynchon write that? Willing to play second banana, now show your stuff, Doug Millison http://www.Online-Journalist.com http://dougday.blogspot.com/ http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/