MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> I was re-reading the passage and enjoyed how there is a discussion of horse
> auctions and slave auctions, then, after confronting the slavedriver, Dixon
> goes to the stable and gives an apple to his horse who ignores the offering
> and sniffs around under his coat where a whip is stowed.
> 
> Reminded me of seeing the Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales in a barn recently and
> my 14 y/o son making me look at the expression in their eyes.


Ah! Family Stories. With horses too! 

 
>  "'Alas,' beams the Revd, 'must we place our
>   unqualified Faith in the Implement, as the Tale
>   accompting for its Presence,-- these ***Family stories***
>   have been perfected in the hellish Forge of Domestick
>   Recension, generation 'pon generation, till what
>   survives is the pure truth, anneal'd to Mercilessness,
>   about each Figure, no matter how stretch'd, nor how
>   influenced over the years by all the Sentiments from
>   unreflective love to inflexible Dislike.'
>      "'Don't leave out Irresponsible Embellishment.'
>      "'Rather, part of the common Duty of Remembering,--
>   surely our Sentiments,-- how we dream'd of, and were
>   mistaken in, each other,-- count for at least as much
>   as our poor cold Chronologies.'" (M&D, Ch. 72, p. 696)


And what of the ***Family Stories*** of LeSpark? 

M&D.31

Heard tales of past crimes? Some collection of stories, everyone
remembers? Some adventures have converged into Saga that is difficult to
reconcile with the Living Uncle? 

And the horse? 

The Great Selim.