M & D Group Read. Cont.

[Mark Kohut]

Take a word like 'cleave'. it has two almost opposite meanings.


This duality of meaning is akin to the ironic ambiguity, I'll now call it,
of meaning so evident throughout so much of M & D,
with the difference that BOTH meanings at once are usually intended.

And it is not over individual words but over allusive phrases--the words
alluding to Matthew say: set piece scenes especially, one overt level going
on and another counter-force layer counterpointing, so to cutely
metaphorize.

He did it most overtly with V herself by the end of V; he did it so overtly
with Blicero and the Rocket---
and not only there in each of these novels---and he showed us it as the
ambiguous mystery that ends Lot 49..

But in Mason & Dixon TRP does it more throughout than in any other book, I
suggest.
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