ATDTDA (3) The way it happens, 91-96

[Dave Monroe]

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> One of the constant themes of Pynchon is slavery,
> and the great waves of social change left in the
> wake of emancipation and other attempts at freedom.

"'Ev'rywhere they've sent us,-- the Cape, St. Helena,
America,-- what's the Element common to all?'
   "'Long Voyages by Sea,' replies Mason, blinking in
Exhaustion by now chronick.  'Was there anything
else?'
   "'Slaves.  Ev'ry day at the Cape, we lived with
Slavery in our faces,-- more of it at St. Helena,--and
now here we are again, in another Colony, this time
having drawn them a Line between their Slave-Keepers,
and their Wage-Payers, as if doom'd to re-encounter
thro' the World this Public Secret, this shameful
Core....  Pretending it to be ever somewhere else,
with the Turks, the Russians, the Companies, [...]
they're murdering and dispossessing thousands
untallied, the innocent of the World, passing daily
into the Hands of Slaveowners and Torturers, but oh,
never in Holland, nor in England, that Garden of
Fools...?  Christ, Mason.'
   "'Christ, what?  What did I do?'
   "'Huz.  Didn't we take the King's money, as here
we're taking it again? whilst Slaves waited upon us,
and we neither one objected, as little a we have here,
in certain houses south of the Line,--  Where does it
end?  No matter where in it we go, shall we find all
the World Tyrants and Slaves?  America was the one
place we shoud not have found them.'"  (M&D, Ch. 71,
pp. 692-3)

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