Object Lesson

[s~Z]

keith:
"[...] He actively created a collision
between his fist and a face, [...]

You sound sure of that, but Pynchon leaves it ambiguous.
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The text is not ambiguous. Act out the scene with your son. Have
him
move his face in your direction and place your fist in its path.
Your response
will be different than Dixon's because (1) you won't place your
fist there in
the first place, and (2) if you did, you would move it before your
son's face hit it.