M&D or It's about Religion

[Richard Fiero]

Terrance wrote:
>If M&D is a novel about Slavery, it must be novel about Dixon.
>  . . .

So far T has offered alienation, Carl Jung, slavery and the 
herring of religion as fun misdirection.
M&D is not about Slavery. GR is not about the Holocaust or the 
Forties. Vineland is not about the Sixties. Hard to argue a 
negative or three or more at one time.
Is Dixon a hero? Are Mason and Dixon two halves of a hero on 
the order of Gilgamesh and Enkidu?
If Oedipus, Jesus Christ, Raskolnikov and Willy Loman are 
alienated tragic heros is there another kind other than the 
comic book flavor? Well there's Slothrop who is pretty comic 
booky but so is his situation. If there is a hero in M&D, it 
must be Mason. Mason, the alienated and hallucinating dupe of 
every female. The guy who clutches after his oppression and 
impotence as if they were going away.