Vineland mention

[Malignd]

A novel by Walter Mosley, entitled What Lies Beneath,
was reviewed today in the Times and in the New Yorker.
 It involves a white man who, for a summer, rents the
basement of a black man's house.  Then, in an act of
atonement, locks himself in a cage.  Says the review:

"White man, black man, cell. It will surprise no one
that there are overtones of slavery in this
arrangement, and some readers may groan at how
undisguised they are. The lock on the cage, supplied
by Bennet, is a nineteenth-century slave-ship padlock
from Mali. But, as any good Hegelian would expect,
the relationship between master and slave is hardly
stable. The two men begin to talk, warily at first and
then more openly. And not just to talk but to read
and discuss. Bennet plans to use his time to catch up
on his reading. (His list includes “Moby
Dick,” “Four Quartets,” and Pynchon’s “Vineland.”)"



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