MDDM Dixon's act of violence

[Thomas Eckhardt]

All agreed, except for the last sentence in which you - like Doug - attempt to
use the text in order to support your own view of the current political
situation. In both cases this doesn't work, IMHO.

Thomas

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