one more little bit Re: MDDM Washington & Gershom & Martha

[Doug Millison]

That the Mt. Vernon scene contains all the elements of a theatrical
production (a "Folly" p. 275) -- joaks, song and dance, the possible
two-man flim-flam routine to extract an investment in swamp land from Mason
and Dixon -- plus the many allusions to pop culture (W.C. Fields, Stepin
Fetchit, Rochester and Jack Benny, etc.), suggests that Pynchon underscores
the way that our understanding of American history depends on who's telling
the story and why, and that what most of us know about American history
(slavery, genocide, democracy, the role of corporations, etc.) is no more
than a fabrication that serves the interest of the fabricator.