MDDM Washington

[jbor]

on 8/7/02 3:30 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> And, just what is it that does disrupt Washington's and Mason's
> "Tranquillity"? Is it only the conversation of these other gents, or, as is
> far more likely in my opinion, is it the use of the racist term "Nigger", and
> George's swift and stern rebuke which follows?

Just reflecting further on this, there's a pretty strong match-up between
the narrator's description of how "their Tranquillity is not long preserv'd"
(572.11) and the metaphor of the "Shark" invading "this quiet Pool of
Reason", from the admonitory speech at 572.26 which is (very probably)
attributable to GW.

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