Pynchon's reconciliation of apparent opposites WAS Dixon's nonviolence

[Dave Monroe]

And, in keith's favor here, again, also, no matter
what other conditions may or may not be gaining here,
momentum dictates that Face would, indeed, meet Fist
here, to the point where said result seems for all
practical puroses intentional.  What's unusual, and
therefore interesting, here, is Pynchon's phrasing,
and his reworking of this event from suck likely
sources as Robinson's "Biographical Note" ... 

--- s~Z <keithmar at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> My only point is that placing a fist in the path of
> an oncoming face is a violent, not a pacifist, act.

But, boy oh boy, here's an awful lotta interesting
stuff going on in Chs. 40-41, much of which has barely
even been hinted at yet, and mostly by me, so ...

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