Pynchon's Badasses (was Re: Authorrheal in Tension

[David Morris]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> In _M&D_ there's no ambiguity about the way that Dixon uses force to
take the slave driver's weapon away from him. It is an interventionist act on
Dixon's part, though Pynchon certainly has the character come away from the 
experience feeling quite ambivalent about what he did.

The scene is masterly crafted, and Dixon is thus wonderfully exposed as a man
of action, which is amply evident in all of the novel and shoud not surprise
anyone at this turn.  He is, IMHO. temporarily the Badass, and is thus free to
act. BadAsses are multi-emptive:  they are Super-Heroes!  But Spiderman is
already an establish PoMo Super-Hero.

David Morris

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