MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Mr T, I don't have "heroes" -- although I do admire some things that some
> people have done -- but it seems to me that Pynchon, via Wicks, presents
> Dixon as a hero to Dixon's family  (for reasons that aren't exactly clear,
> as this thread makes evident), and Mason seems to consider Dixon a hero in
> this instance.  I don't think Pynchon presents Dixon as a "hero", Dixon is
> far too complex to be a simple hero, imo.

Heroes are not simple. And Dixon is a hero in M&D, he is also both a
mock hero and a super hero.