MDDM Washington

[jbor]

on 9/7/02 2:30 AM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> W the
> stoned space cadet demonstrates a disconnect between what he is (slave
> owner and master) and what he does (permits intimacies between himself and
> a slave that some other slave owners don't), yet the master-slave
> relationship remains intact, his privilege sacrosanct.

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is GW described as, or shown to be a
"stoned space cadet"?

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, does GW (I think you mean Pynchon)
demonstrate a "disconnect between what he is ... and what he does"?

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is it shown that "the master-slave
relationship" between George and Gershom "remains intact", and that George's
"privilege [is] sacrosanct"?

> Pynchon has shown Washington raving about the Jesuit conspiracy,
> stoned on pot and buzzed on punch

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is GW described as, or shown to be
"raving" because he is "stoned on pot and buzzed on punch"?

> Pynchon's W is a strange character,
> probably been out on the farm too long smoking that loco weed

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is it stated or implied that GW has
"been out on the farm too long smoking that loco weed"?

> Pynchon shows the Washington household in this instance as a
> casual place, certainly, where master and slave party together -- but that
> doesn't change the fact that they remain fixed in their roles as master and
> slave.

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is it indicated that George and Gersh
"remain fixed in their roles as master and slave"?

> he's created a Washington who seems blissfully
> unaware of the deeply ingrained racism that shapes his behavior

Where, in the novel _Mason & Dixon_, is it stated or implied that GW is
"blissfully unaware of the ingrained racism that shapes his behaviour"?

> I
> assume that Pynchon knows what he's doing here and am content to base my
> reading on what he presents for us on the page without adding elements he
> chose not to add.

Yeah, right.

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