re Re: Dixon's sex with slaves

[Terrance Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Where is the chapter, the passage, the sentence that I can read in M&D
> where Dixon has sex with Mason?
> 
> T:
> >Where is the chapter, the passage, the sentence that I can read in M&D
> >where Dixon has sex with anyone other than Mason?


But do consider the fact that in judging Mr. Dixon promiscuous, even
having sex with slave woman at the Cape, you are agreeing with Ives.
Just prior to the yarns about Dixon and Mason heading out on separate
journeys we have a very interesting discussion about character. How it
is formed and so forth and how "none of is what we appear to be....  It
seems that Dixon is very good at picking up on the local stuff that fits
into the character he and others have created for himself, that is, a
horny guy who loves adventure and drink and gets lots of loving. Dixon
doesn't get any, but he knows when and how to look down at his penis
during a conversation with Mason so as to look like he has been getting
some local loving. I doubt Mason even gets this local body language, but
Dixon amuses himself with it and the reason he picks up on it is because
it is "character building."  

It is Ives that says Mr. Dixon is a debauched and promiscuous Quaker.
And he sounds rather silly in saying this because he has only the text
thus far, that is, the tales that RC has told him. In these yarns  Dixon
has done nothing on RC's stage that would be anything close to the
single  Truth or Proof of the matter that Ives so values. Why assume
that Dixon goes to Annapolis Ives objects. There is no evidence in the
field book, no facts, no tops, no hoops.  But Rc wants to send Dixon on
a particular path and so he sends Dixon to Annapolis despite the
protestations from Ives. Try as he may, Ives simply can't challenge the
tale. Two Dixons? How about three?