Pynchons Problem

[alice wellintown]

correction S/B Jim not Huck.

> But, in the end, he can only view JIM as white on the inside. So Jim
> is an exceptional negro and not like the others who are black through
> and through.

It was his suspicion all along, that Jim was white on the inside; but
he never quite had a hunch that all that decendent of Ham talk was
just talk to keep men like Jim in servitude and justify it with
christian religion. He never did consider that the since relatively
few Africans were taken to North America, and that, as we read in
Douglass, a new race of Americans, most of the much lighter in
complexion and with shapes and features that appear more European than
African had been generated and now dominated even in the states where
salves were a majority of the population; he never did figure that
out. But Roxy did. Sure, that Puddnhead Wilson should put all that
racist talk about Twain in the same book with all that racist talk
about Conrad. The truth don't much matter. They both dead now. What
matters is the politics of publishing and the culture, not wars, but
squabbles.