M&D new question

[David Morris]

Just wait for the whip incident...

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 12:12 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > What do you think of the idea that, maybe to Cherrycoke, the Uniting of
> the States itself (the artifice of it, or...?) contains some ominous
> potential, maybe regarding slavery?  Maybe he understood that the line's
> role would change from an simple separator of two distinct sovereignties
> (one with slaves, one without...), to a sublimated, buried, so more
> dangerous element of a larger identity (from schism to schiz-...)?
>
> I think we have to keep reading to find out - I don’t remember slavery as
> being any kind of a theme or motif in the book but it might be there to
> discerning readers -  ??
>
> Bekah
> who gave herself that online name after reading M&D the first time back in
> ?? - (there were too many Beckys in my groups back then)
>
>
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