MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Aug 26 11:51:52 CDT 2002



s~Z:
> Perhaps the passage was written to create in the readership, individually
> and collectively, a feeling of confusion and uncertainty, a la what Dixon
> was feeling.

This reminds me of the reading of the Pokler confronting the strange fruit
of his willful ignorance, among the dead and dying and suffering slaves of
Dora, presented in a Pynchon Notes article, talking about the way Pynchon
manages to allegorize this suffering without exploiting it, or something
like that, creating in the reader something like the feelings that Pokler
experiences -- I don't have the PN issue at hand for a reference or a quote.


 s~Z :
>Or we could just do what Doug said and make me final arbiter of what this
>passage describes. It would save a lot of time. And be less painful.


My vote goes to s~Z as final arbiter, much more playful and fun than some
other voices here.

If not s~Z, then Dave Monroe, even though we train no white tigers together
in that Italian Opera Vegas M&D seems envision (if only 'tween the frames)
as the Line projects and develops into a great Mall of America,
cocacolonizing the world...



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