pynchon-l-digest V2 #2719

[Doug Millison]

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


Yeah, sometimes the truth does hurt.   Gotta crack that shell to keep growing.



>>>>Why else would the slave-driver end up on the ground?<<<
>
>He is kneeling in gratitude for Dixon's non-violence towards him.



He's begging for mercy, and, if he's the masochist some readers seem to
want him to be, he's hoping for Hate's Corollary, which Dixon denies by
choosing not to whip him.



>It seems to me that
>it's not Otto who has the problem with the nuances of the English language.


Agreed. jbor doesn't know how to find the subject of the sentence and the
antecedent of the pronoun "its".


>
>Thanks, Rob.

Ditto,






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