MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Dave Monroe]

Without having had the time to even quite pop open all
the traffic here since Saturday, much less much read
any of it, I'll come clean on my personal take on the
passage in question.  Does Dixon punch the Driver? 
Yes and no.  Does he whip him?  Yes and no.  For any
and all of the reasons given ...  

Yes, in that I've (obviously) no problem "tweening" in
the actions between Pynchon's, anyone's, textual "key
drawings," on the basis of, say, here, mechanics,
history, likely source material, textual emphases, 
common sense, evidence circumstantial or otehrwise,
whatever.  I will want cause and effect, apparently
...

No, in that Pynchon, M&D, Pynchon/M&D, whatever
(obviously) does not explicitly depict, describe,
inscribe, whatever, the actions in question.  Again, 
waht's interesting there is precisely that, that said
actions are NOT enacted, not by The Text "Itself," or
whatever, at any rate.  Conspicuously so.  This seems
Significant, but ...

But largely I was curious as to what (mostly, obvious)
arguments would be put forth for either
(super)position, mostly, is all.  My own Jesuitism,
perhaps.  Devil's advocacy.  Have a reason once again
to expend paper printing the Digests, esp. as I
deleted most of the posts to clear inbox space.  Will
comment on particulars if/when necessary, but ...

But Slow Learner, Vineland, either/or, both/and,
whatever ...

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