MDDM Dixon's act of violence

[Dave Monroe]

Now this is exactly how you guys (and I DO mean "guys"
here, both gender and number) get started ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> And I've got no problem discussing the "often
> pointed references to politics" in Pynchon's texts
> either. In the episode with the slave-driver, for
> example, Pynchon acknowledges through his portrayal
> of Dixon's "act" that the only way to begin to
> achieve "justice" in certain extreme situations of
> injustice and violence is to neutralise the
> adversary's potential to do violence through an
> initial act of brute force. 

So far, so good, but ...

> Just as with the international alliance against
> terrorism and the military assault on al Qaeda and
> the Taliban.

But here's where the trouble begins, no matter who
begins it.  If y'all are so insistent on "The Text,"
well ... but do apreciate seeing elsewhere such
"extratextual" (hradly, but ...) matters as the
subsequent history of Mason and Dixon's line given
recognition.  Again, one foot in the late eighteenth
century, one in the late twentieth ...

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