Siegel: review of M&D

[Ghetta Life]

Au Contraire!  No matter what you, Seigel or Pynchon says, no one can 
convince me that the slave trader did anything but fall onto Dixon's 
passively raised immobile fist.  And I will argue that point with you till 
hell freezes over...

Ghetta

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>'Mason & Dixon' by Mark Siegel. 
>_Journal of Popular Culture_ 31.4. Bowling Green: Spring 1998, pp. 176-7.
>
>Excerpt:
>
>     [...] The most heroic moment is not the completion of the Line
>     or its abandonment; it is Dixon, returning from his failed
>     mission, striking down a slave trader: "Dixon chose to act,...
>     [to do] what each of us wishes he might have the unthinking
>     Grace to do, yet fails to do. To act for all those of us who
>     have so failed" (698). [...]

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