MDDM Scalping Lord Lepton

[pynchonoid]

Umberto seems to have a better grasp of P's text in
this thread, but I like the point T seems to be trying
to make, this rifle as an example of new technology
that amplifies the misery caused by the phenomenon
that Pynchon elsewhere calls the War that never ends,
a tendency that, in North America, M&D traces back to
the earliest slaughters of indigenous people by
colonizing Europeans.  What really disturbs Mason and
Dixon is to find that the "inverted Pentacle" (680)
that they have seen in other places around the world
where Europeans oppress the locals,  a "Sign"that,
Mason warns, "has evil Powers" (681), has penetrated
to the interior of this new world. 



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