Siegel: review of M&D

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:22 +0000, Ghetta Life wrote:
> 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...
> 


I have to side with Ghetta. But there's a deeper reason not to emote so
much over that oft brought up passage. If memeory serves it was
presented in the context of family fokelore. 


> 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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