MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

At 9:14 AM -0700 8/23/02, s~Z wrote:
>The words 'fuck'd' are italicized, and the words 'you' are italicized.
>
>What is your reading of this italicization Doug?


The author chooses to emphasize these words, imo to communicate the sense
of frustration and mounting rage,  the slave-driver's (with the italicized
"fuck'd" on p 698, as well as "Now" and "plus" and "plus" again) and
Dixon's rage (with the "you" repetition on 699; and we got a taste of it
beginning to build with the italicized "they" back on p 696, I think, when
the people-loving Dixon says he prefers machines -- paraphrasing, Otto --
to slave owners -- paraphrasing again, Otto -- like this "Herdsman of
Humans" p 697) -- for Dixon, frustration and rage that become all the more
intense as he struggles with himself and, successfully, against the
temptation to yield and actually use the whip on the slave-driver.

Do you see italics somehow communicating the action of Dixon using the
whip, which P doesn't portray in this scene?  If so, how would you support
that supposition?






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