MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

>The person who
>wields it is the one who gives the whip its "purpose".


We agree on this.


In Dixon's hand, the whip goes unused for "its" purpose, which, Pynchon
tells us here, is to express hate.


You're reading this scene now as an act of S&M love between Dixon and the
slave-driver?  Interesting. I guess that works, even in refraining from
whipping the slave-driver, thus depriving the man of pleasure, thus
inflicting an alternate form of suffering -- yeah, that works.


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