CHEERLEADING FOR LAURA. Again. With a challenge.

[Mark Wright]

Seems to me Yes. I'll take Austra at face value, reasoning thusly: If a
slave speaks at all to a white male, she will speak truth about everything
except--just possibly--her own thoughts. This out of well founded fear
rather than respect or any possible affection.

On Thursday, February 5, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Will you all RISK a judgment on Laura's particular question. PLEASE??:
>
> Is Austra telling the truth? Is the Vroom household of women
> just a reliably told tale in another historical novel?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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