MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Otto]

Very good -- one doesn't have to write it down/ to show but it's clear to
the reader/the viewer that fist & face meet. Evidence: the broken tooth.
Equally it mustn't be written down explicitly in the text that Dixon whips
the guy.
Given the historical record you've presented (can be found here too:
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/dixon.html)
and Prof. Fischer's paraphrase
(http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/fischer24.htm)
of the scene I am more convinced than ever that Dixon whips the driver in
the novel as the historical Dixon did.

Otto

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