MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Dave Monroe]

One can question the truth of the, er, Tooth, of
course, but that's not my question.  I'm not
interested in arguing one reading over another, just
that there's a bit of flicker between them, and that
we're taking up an unusually large load of the work
involved in coming to these conclusions.  The text
"itself" (yes, Keith ...) engenders this, and I'm
curious as to why, and with what effects  ... 

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 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.

But, hey, thnaks for the link, didn't know that it was
up on that Hyperarts site ...

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