summing up Re: MDDM hist. refs re non-Intervention, W & G & Martha

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:16 PM
Subject: summing up Re: MDDM hist. refs re non-Intervention, W & G & Martha

All your really mighty fine links seem to present a GW that has been (at
times) indeed a little ahead of his time. And that's how Pynchon presents
him, compared to the only other slave-holder in the novel. That it remains
an oscillating image, undecideable, is ok to me. That's how the lesson we
can draw out of history very often is. In the GW-case we have seen that
neither uncritical patriotic hagiography nor simple moralistic condemnation
are appropriate. People like him (who should've known better) remain a
mystery to me.

Otto

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