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

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 15 08:08:20 CST 2002


A classic case of egg-on-face:

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>
>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...
>
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