MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

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Mon Aug 26 12:14:30 CDT 2002


In a message dated Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:28:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, keithsz at concentric.net writes:

> 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. So, rather than reading a description of the complexities of
> Dixon's reaction to the slavedrivermaster, we experience 
> them

Which might add another spin to the italics,(w/r/t the
reader this time) since the above reading begs the 
question:

How do "you" feel about Dixon's actions?




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