MDDM Washington & Gershom

[barbara100 at jps.net]

From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom

>Any textual evidence for this?

Dude! you don't need any more textual evidence than the book jacket! The
time and place will tell you.  Gershom's black, Washington's a plantation
master--that's all you need to know to figure out Gershom's UNDER George.
Now I'm sure Pynchon's a kind enough writer (ha!) to want to shed some light
of humanity on old George, but the reader should make no mistake about who's
really on  TOP in Mason & Dixon. Pynchon's always got someone on TOP.



> on 16/7/02 8:05 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > no matter how
> > much latitude he has under Pynchon's Washington, he
> > is, nonethless, UNDER him.
>
> Any textual evidence for this? I'm interested.
>