george washington

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I wouldn't read the RC's SDB entry on page 275 as 
evidence that Washington is ridiculed or lanbasted
in M&D. Quite the opposite in fact. In fact, what the
RC says is very stuffy and prejudicial. Furthermore,
the text narrator (this could be the more mature RC)
is quite positive on George (top 276) and note that
George seems to almost respond to the RC's stodgy
description of the Virginians when he talks with Dixon
about language and sliding into the ways of
America--note he is talking with Dixon (a good thing I
say and that they are getting on well, Dixon is a very
good judge of character and he seems to like George
well enough, makes him thik of the jolly pitman, now
if that ain't a complimentary thought on the father
(the Pitman is where Dixon learned about his own
father's work and came to terms with his father's
death and his own labot/vocation--surveyor_ of this
nation. 

Anyway, can't see what Doug is talking about at all. 
Slaves? Where are all george's slaves? Surely TRP has
plenty of historical facts at hand to make George look
like a bad guy or a fool or whatever, but he's not a
bad chap in M&D. 


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