MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[John Bailey]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but 'tooth', as in you broke mine, 
does have more than the obvious meaning. I suppose it's my particular bias, 
but when thinking about this passage I couldn't help making associations of 
tooth = cog... like, you broke my place in the mechanism...not the first 
time we've seen clockwork metaphors, chains, systems, machines, what have 
ya. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch to go with the tooth-of-a-wheel 
implication here, would it? Maybe.

Then again, does Pynchon ever smoke cigars? Are they really just cigars? 
Ever wonder if he just dashes off a page and never proofs it for double- (to 
dodecahedral-) meanings?

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