MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

At 12:34 PM -0700 8/23/02, s~Z wrote:
>There is nothing in the text that says the fist was stationary. Quite the
>contrary if you stay with the verb used in the text.

"Dixon places his Fist in the way of the oncoming Face" is, imo,
indeterminate, "places" bearing both passive and active connotations.  So I
disagree just a little, there is something in the text that has the meaning
of Dixon's fist remaining stationary, in place -- textual support in a way
I think is missing from the reading that interprets Dixon's spoken
repetitions of "you" as lashes with the whip (actions that Pynchon does not
portray).





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