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

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on 15/3/02 8:00 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> If y'all won't take my word for it, well ... well,
> thank you, Thomas, 'twas my point exactly ...
> 
> --- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe you are rewriting Pynchon's text here.
>> Pynchon wrote "Dixon places his Fist in the way of
>> the oncoming Face". He did not write "Dixon punches
>> the slave-owner in the face." Of course, you can do
>> whatever you like with the text Pynchon actually
>> wrote...

Ever heard of irony, Dave?

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