Dixon's sex with slaves
Terrance Flaherty
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 17 17:40:28 CST 2002
Where is the chapter, the passage, the sentence that I can read in M&D
where Dixon has sex with anyone other than Mason?
Thanks in advance,
T
PS I think that what Dixon and Mason do at the Cape, that is, fall into
the Slothfulness that has them (not unlike the lady of the house who has
girls licking the juices from fruits off her arms) exploiting the labor
or the people there, for holding a tool or an instrument, making the job
less burdensome for themselves at the expense of the slaves (the people
from quite another world they rationalize) is good example of how RC
uses irony in this novel. Mason frustrates Dixon's lust-life. Do note
that when the Slave Austra (the South) comes to Mason's bed, Dixon is
out of it. The text foregrounds this fact as it will at several times
during the novel. These two are married, as married as I & Q in The
White Whale and I don't think they cheat. Now what does Dixon do when he
goes back with the clock and Mason stays on the Island with the insane
RS chap? He goes to a club and what? Is lookin cheating?
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