Hors d'Oeuvres For Hire

[Dave Monroe]

In any case, it's a pretty funny moment, and one with
a recognizable lineage.  Facsinated as I am with any
Pynchon novel getting the Holywood treatment, Mason &
Dixon: Now a Major Motion Picture (or Major Miniseres
Event, at any rate) seems the most distinct of a
series of pretty indistinct possibilities, full of
such comedy set pieces as it is ...

--- s~Z <keithmar at msn.com> wrote:
> >>>Actually ....
> 
> It's all a bluff, akin to claiming that your hands
> are registered as lethal weapons with the FBI.  Like
> my keyboard ...<<<
> 
> Millison was making a case that it was a clear
> assertion of Dixon's pacifism by posting the
> question as an assertion and omitting Dixon's
> response to the question. Whether or not it was a
> bluff, it was hyperbole.

Just trying to keep y'ALL honest if and when I can, is
all my concern is here.  And y'all (?) wonder (?) why
I tend not to make any direct interpretive statements
myself.  Then again, I'm more interested in opening up
the text, rather than shutting it down, so ... but my
reading there is, Dixon, figuring Fabian might be
under the--mistaken or otherwise, we do not find out
here--impression he's going to be pretty much a
sitting (vs, shitting? or, perhaps, both ...) duck, is
making a last ditch attempt to stave off a duel by
dissuading Fabian of this presumption (again, whether
of not it's valid).  Trying to weasel out of a
potentially lethal situation by whatever means
possible.  Understandable ...

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