MDDM Washington & Gershom

[Doug Millison]

jbor:
>Er, that'd be Wicks, not "Pynchon".

Right, I forget.  Wicks writes M&D, not Thomas Pynchon.  Doh! I guess you win.

If you want to claim that P's Washington considers his slave an equal, that
P's Washington is not a swamp land flim-flam man, that Pynchon wants us to
understand how happy those slaves were enjoying all that total liberty with
their humane masters, that black is white, be my guest.  Your argument
amounts to nothing more than  opinion propped up with bits and pieces of
Pynchon's text cobbled together from here and there, in this case rather
unconvincingly; alternative explanations exist for each of the situations
from which you draw your conclusions.   But if you want to insist that you
have the final and definitive interpretation of this particularly
problematic Pynchonian passage, enjoy, my friend, obviously I won't be the
one to  pop your bubble.  Have it your way, it's your interpretation after
all, no matter how lame it might be, yes it's all yours.


...this just in:


       RULES OF THE TODDLER

1. If I like it, it's mine.

2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.

3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.

4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.

5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.

6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.

7. If it looks just like mine, it's mine.

8. If I think it's mine, it's mine.