MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Dave Monroe]

Well, again, what I find interesting, and what seems
capital-s Significant, is that Pynchon's/M&D's account
of that event (apocryphal or not) quite assiduously
does NOT quite narrate (or whatever) Dixon actually
inficting any physical violence on the Driver.  We get
before and after, maybe, cause and effect, perhaps,
even, if not quite The Event Itself, but ... well,
Pynchon's Dixon seems indeed capable of action,
violence, even, but there's an interesting reluctance
to depict, inscribe him as acting violently there ...

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> 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. Sort of like
> that movie Memento.

Which reminds me ...

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/union/widescreen.html

And I'll be occupied with ...

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/union/anderson.html

These next three nights, so ...





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