"one's homeland"

[pynchonoid]

I wouldn't argue that historical context -- including
the contemporary contexts in which Pynchon writes M&D
and it is received by its readers -- is irrelevant to
M&D (or to anything P has published) and of course I
didn't in the P-list thread to which Keith
doublethinkingly alludes below. Quaker willingness to
join the other colonists in violence against their
fellow humans (African captives, Native Americans) was
an issue at the time Mason and Dixon cut the Line. I
dug up quite a bit of the historical record for our
discussion about Pynchon's depiction of George
Washington as slave owner, too. 

Keith, I think you're letting your emotions get in the
way of your reasoning here. Why not keep the focus on
what Pynchon has written instead of spending your time
twisting what I've written one way and then another?
Or isn't the material rich enough to engage your
interest? 


--- Dave Monroe <flavordav at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Doug was right, however, in that the punch never
> happens on the page, in the text.  Coming from
> someone
> who bothered to hunt down the "historical" (recall,
> this is more family legend than "history") record
> ...
> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> > 
> > When Doug was arguing a pacifist reading of the
> M&D
> > Dixon passage, the historical record was
> irrelevant.
> 


=====
<http://www.pynchonoid.blogspot.com/>

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
http://search.yahoo.com