re Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:37 AM
Subject: re Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom


> jbor:
> >even though Pynchon's GW realises
> >that he is Gershom's (*"nominal"*) master, he treats and respects him as
an
> >equal
>
>
> Really?  Then why isn't Washington serving the drinks and stepping to
fetch
> the pipe and herb? Why isn't Gershom ordering Washington into the kitchen
> to cook some snacks? So much for his "equal" treatment of his enslaved
> African American.  (Martha is also onto Washington's patriarchal ways, as
> she brings in the munchies for the men as they smoke pot and talk
> politics.)  Beyond that, as Gershom's legal owner, it's impossible for W
to
> be Gershom's equal. jbor's argument remains absurd in the face of what
> Pynchon actually shows in M&D.
>

When I own the stash of course the others get the pipe, clean it, make the
coffee & buy the chocolate later.

O.

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