In Which Pynchon Makes an Appearance

[alice wellintown]

Much as Dixon condemns the evil exploitation of Africans, when he is in
Africa he exploits the people there.

On Monday, May 6, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:

> Well, Dixon's a Quake-errr, apt to Hang Out in the Malay Districts of the
> World... not apt to exploit tho' the Red Coat says otherwise... remember
> him taking the riding crop from the drive
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'alicewellintown at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> You won't want to hang with Dixon if he's exploiting you because he's a
>> white guy from Europe and you are a black gal from Africa.
>>
>> Or with Zoyd if you are his ex-lover and want to be left alone, or one of
>> his daughter's girlfriends when he's fishing for jailbait.
>>
>> Or with Doc when he gets that name tagged to him for the work he does
>> with a doctor's bag.
>>
>> No that I mind a man with a past, even some skeletons in the
>> closet...hell, we all sin somehow, but then again, that's a moral center
>> kinda idea, like jesus sez, so that won't do for you sort of moral center
>> guys. Nope, it's just not gonna work out if you have to bend it like the
>> Flecktone's bango string to ger bonzo back in the good Graces of the lawd.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'joeallonby at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know. Zoyd, Doc, and Dixon all seem like good hangs with a
>>> moral center of sorts.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'markekohut at yahoo.com');>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > by Mrs. James Wood, good writer of fiction (her hubby says so too),
>>> who,
>>> > however
>>> > reveals she hasn't read TRP as closely as her husband hasn't
>>> either.....
>>> >
>>> > Yet, her point is so true and necessary to be said, IMHO....(I have
>>> watched
>>> > the growth of
>>> > the belief that readers must LIKE a book's characters, as if fiction
>>> were
>>> > about all of
>>> > our "nice" acquaintances, since so much of it is.....)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
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