MDDM Ch. 72 Mock-heroic Super-Quaker & Hero Transformation

[Terrance]

 P does invest Dixon with cartoonish super hero power and the guys in
the black hats (Dixon sports a red coat of military cut, high heeled
boots and a black Quaker brim) in P's novels are the good guys so....I
think Robert is correct, we have Dixon as Super-Quaker in this Driver
confrontation scene. 

to 493 "Hold!" Dixon seizing a pistol and diving out of the tent-flap,
into the rain with a smoothness Mason has rarely observed." 

Smooth. 

And, what is out there causing fear, could be what Dixon wishes to meet,
a predatory animal/human. Something almost human. 

turn back to page 147 where Dixon and a gun come in contact again. This
time it is Cornelius with the gun and he is hell bent on killing Dixon.
He should be trying to kill Mason, we would think, but Dixon is the one
that has returned to the Cape and he is the game. Dixon gets fed up with
being shot at and decides to charge at Cornelius. He charges the man
like and animal. Cornelius, like Elmer Fud, just stands there and
complains that the roles have been reversed. Dixon seems to change into
a bugs bunny like wise guy, cracking quips on poor Cornelius who is
completely in Dixon's control. Off to Dixon's pub they go and then to
C's club where Dixon will see Austra and do nothing to help her. 

Now to page 241, Dixon, wants to be transformed out in the fell. He
wants to be killed or devoured by this almost human spirit or to become
one of them. 

Now to page 78 where Dixon feels like a predatory animal, as if the cape
town were ancient to him, his hunting ground, his Fell. 

Now to the slave driver scene and the joke about Dixon with pistols. 
A mantua length? Now that is a length that changes with the times, a
fashionable length being now short and now long, but Dixon says he'll
need a short one so it won't obstruct his seizing HIS pistol. Mantua? Is
that Italian? 

All? Is that all the sheep? Would need to be a superman to save all the
sheep, no? 

Mason's admiration is ironic. Mason can't stand sheep.