Fw: Siegel: review of M&D

[moishe lichtfuss]

 family lore it is...
 ain't the most heroic moment, like so much in the novel, the hypothetical
 line across the atlantic...the passage is quite ambiguous with respect to
transition between fixed order and states of transition, yet the pensioners'
home that m&d, hypothetically, spend the rest of their days in is called 
"St.
Brendan's Isle", mentioned before that on one or two occassions as an 
uncharted
"Paradise of the Scriptures"
...at least the whole thing is depicted as a hypothetical triumph for m&d
...just a thought

moishe

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:30 PM
> Subject: RE: Siegel: review of M&D
>
>
>> 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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