MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon's act of violence

[David Morris]

>Dave Monroe belabors the idiotic, all in the quest for Doug's non-existent 
>brain:
>
>Whatever else y'all want to argue about (most of which doesn't include 
>anything I want to argue about, so...), again, Doug does have a good point 
>about precisely what doesn't quite happen here ...
>
>"Dixon places his Fist in the way of the oncoming
>Face,--" (M&D, Ch. 72, p. 698)
>
>Not QUITE the same as "punch[ing] him in the face,"

If anything, I'd say Pynchon is making a big joke out of Dixon's Quaker 
non-violence.  It's supposed to be funny!  It's not "legally" the same thing 
as throwing a punch, but the intent is identical, and the intent is the real 
point.  But feel free to belabor this 'till kingdom come...

David Morris


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