MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[jbor]

on 24/8/02 11:32 AM, Doug Millison at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> "its purpose purely to
> express hate with"  (how can a whip hate?  good
> question, but that's the sentence Pynchon writes
> here)
 
The whip doesn't hate; it "express[es]" hate (cf. the whip described as "an
*expression* of ill feeling" at 696.7, my emphasis). It seems to me that
it's not Otto who has the problem with the nuances of the English language.

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