IVIV and the loss of community

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Mr.Monroe—where is Dixon's quote? The one one concerning slavery, in this of
> all places . . .?

"'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 bewteen 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'retaking 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 teh 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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Cf. ...

"This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it unfurl."
(Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)