re Re: MDDM Gershom's Intervention

[Paul Mackin]

Doug Millison wrote:

> Mackin:
> > [disperse foul sewer gas seepage]
>
> >There's a lot Washington doesn't like but he has no reason to think he is
> >being
> >treated like a slave.
>
> I don't agree, based on the way Pynchon sets things up in M&D (as I've
> demonstrated in previous posts) and the extended sense in which he treats
> the concept of "slavery".
> I'd be interested in discussing  this if you'd care to back up your
> argument with evidence from M&D.
> Your choice, of course.

Oboy. I have the choice of proving a negative. I have to demonstarte that
Pynchon never has said that George Washington doesn't fear he's on the verge
of slipping into slavery. Do I also have to prove he never says the earth is
flat? .

"The extended sense in which he treats the concept of slavery," you say..
Must be pretty darn extended.  Maybe he's Martha's sex slave. Or a slave to
demon rum.

"The way Pynchon sets things up in M&D?"  A beginning, middle and end, you
must mean.

You do nothing but talk unsubstantiated bosh. You never provide support for
your implausible notions of what Pynchon means or thinks.  Read the books,
you say. I've a pretty good idea of the way you read a book. Find a sentence
that seems to support your hobby horse. And if that sentence doesn't fly you
go back and find another.

You've got yourself into this mess, now wiggle out of it.  Or don't. Your
choice.

P.