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

[Dave Monroe]

Heard of it?  Hell, I invented it ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 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?

Plus ca change, eh?  But the question is, you ever
read all those bits 'n' pieces of Ch. 40 that've been
smokescreened out of existence for the past few days
here?  'Cos that's what i'm hoping to do here, at
least.  And then there's Ch. 41 ...

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