In Which Pynchon Makes an Appearance

[Lemuel Underwing]

Perhaps you're right Alice, but it seems that Dixon is somewhat "ahead" of
the reader on this issue. For, perhaps, Dixon's Malay Wanderings are borne
of his European Guilt, a digression infused with any sort of Drug to be
found among the Tents and Jobbers, mostly *dagga* and that (to quote Mason)
"G-d-awful *ketjap",* it might explain why he, for reasons distinct from
Mason's, feels quite uncomfortable in the Dutch section.

I'd have to open it but I think they discuss it, being at the mercy of some
great Imperial Will sort-of-thing.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mostly, he shopped for hot sauce. Mason was doing more exploiting, and
> one could argue that it was forced on him.
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:10 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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> 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>
> 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>
> 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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