MDDM Lambton Worm another Master/Slave tale

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>Dixon, who tells the tale, says, Christ won that day.
> 
> That's the moral of the story. While Mason, Wicks, even Shelby, can't
> get it. That's it.<<<
> 
> Wicks and Shelby understood perfectly what it means that Christ won.



Right. They Get it (understand) what Dixon says, but they
don't/won't/can't get it. 
> 
> Goodbye symbolism, hello literalism.
> 
> Goodbye transcendence, hello science/materialism.
> 
> Goodbye fast and bulbous lines, hello straight and narrow lines.

So,  for example, Shelby understands what Dixon's moral implies, but he
doesn't like it and so he says that Christianity won even if Christ
didn't. And indeed this is correct.
Wicks gets this. He's been preaching this sermon, but he can't get it.
Mason gets it too and Dixon is constantly telling him this tale with
this moral. But Mason can't get it. I guess if he could, he would be a
baker's son. 

 I think Robert is right, its the conflation of commerce or capitalism
and christianity, but I'm not sure the environmental agenda is
foregrounded. It seems to me that this critique of the conflation of
commerce and christianity, the profanation of the secular, the virgin to
dynamo, spirit to material, is as American as Henry Adams,  Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt
Whitman,  Mark Twain, Frank Norris,  Theodore Dreisser,  Sinclair
Lewis...and so on.