MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

> >>>Dixon doesn't whip the Driver.<<<

s~Z
> The text doesn't say this. 

This episode of M&D doesn't show Dixon whipping the
slave driver. 


> The specifics of the event, since
> there are word-gaps in the
> narrative, beg for interaction with the imagination
> of the reader, don't
> they? 


Yes they do.  Plenty of room for different
interpretations, different ways to fill in the gaps
between the animation frames (thanks for that Dave,
the first time around, too), and no way to establish
which is "correct", my reading of the scene included.
Some readings may seem more probable than others, but
I don't think you can nail it down any more precisely
than that. 

Is it a smile, is it gas, which do you want it to be? 



> I guess if we were
> just objective enough we
> would just read 'what Doug and Dave wrote' pointing
> out 'what Pynchon wrote'
> and thank them for clearing everything up.

Or, we could thank Keith and accept Keith's reading as
Scripture, I guess.  But isn't that what Keith is
arguing against, the notion that somebody here is
setting him or herself up as the final, objective
arbiter of " what Pynchon wrote" -- (an ability or
role which I have never claimed in Pynchon-L, by the
way, no matter how many times that nasty canard gets
fished out of the pickling pot) -- if that's the case,
file it under Pot Calls Kettle Black.





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