M & D Read

[Mark Kohut]

p. 78.  M: "You;ve no concept of Temptation. You came ashore here
looking for occasions to transgress. Some of us have more Backbone, I
suppose"
           D: "A bodily part too often undistinguished, "Dixon
replies, "from a Ram--Rod up the Arse".

Just two attitudes to life expressed here?. Any way to judge if the
author has a 'side"?

Remember the words on 'honor' in AtD? Probably alluding to another
comic creation, Falstaff, on honor?
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