MDDM Washington & Gershom

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: re Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom


> Doug Millison wrote:
>
> >
> > P shows no such thing, Gershom can't possibly hold equal rank with
George
> > and Martha because he's their slave, their propertym the relationship is
> > unequal by definition. However friendly or humane they might treat
Gershom,
> > a reader simply can't know that they consider him their equal;
>

Smoking together means bringing the alpha waves on to the same wavelength:
turn on - tune in. There is at least some brainy molecular equality among
them.

I just re-read the scene in the German translation to make sure I won't miss
anything, and I realized that Gershom is being served by Martha too. In a
normal master & slave relation we could expect Washington sending Gershom to
the kitchen for sweets as well as for the pipes. But we get no other picture
of Gershom doing some house-slave "work" apart from this job of fetching the
pipes.

Otto


_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com