a bit more re Pynchon's reconciliation of apparent opposites WAS Dixon's nonviolence

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
(snip)  But it's conceiveable that Pynchon assumes that his
> serious
> readers will mine the historical record and dig up the same info
> about
> Dixon's history as Dave Monroe has done, that we will know that
> Pynchon
> (via Cherrycoke) is rewriting the historical record re Dixon's
> encounter
> with the slave driver (....)

I am not so sure that Pynchon would agree that *we* (I mean this lot
here on the list) are the ideal readers he has in mind. We may be too
serious by half....
Mark

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