MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[jbor]

on 24/8/02 5:34 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Is Dixon whipping the man on the
> back? 

I would think so. Why else would the slave-driver end up on the ground?

    Dixon reaches down .... (699.8)

    ... cringing there among the Waggon-Ruts. (699.19)

If you read the italicised "you"'s in Dixon's speech as verbal intonation
only without any accompanying physical exertion (i.e. him just standing
there berating the man) it all comes across as somewhat effete, if not
effeminate, to my mind's eye.

I think Dixon's "Voice breaks" when he realises he cannot "kill the Driver".

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