MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Otto]

"On a third trip south, this time to Maryland, Dixon encounters a cowardly
slave trader beating a slave. Dixon appropriates the whip and turns it
against the slave trader."

NORMAN FISCHER
CIVIC REPUBLICAN POLITICAL/LEGAL ETHICS AND
ECHOES OF THE CLASSICAL HISTORICAL NOVEL IN
THOMAS PYNCHON'S MASON & DIXON
http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/fischer24.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver


> Pynchon's Dixon starts out with a desire to whip the man and then realizes
> he can't do it, simple as that.
>  Many an intended assault  starts thusly then fizzles.  Our own Mr T's
> angry, violent "I'm going to kick your ass" (paraphrasing) without the
> follow-up, for example.
>
>
> >Where, do you think, refers that "Now be a man, face me, and make it
easier,
> >or must I rather work upon you from the Back, like a Beast" (699.2-3) to?
> >

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