M & D Group Read. Dixon feels the Power.

[Mark Kohut]

Joseph T writes:
"M&D  in a long discussion recall Jacobite uprising, each claiming a
dubious participation or sympathy, showing desire to connect to the by then
mythic rebellion.  ???"

Think of the Night & Day and Jacobite lines....

"Dixon does recall a band of Riders, cloak'd and Mask'd"......."Even now I
believe that it was he"....."such high Moment"..."such high Purpose"...." I
knelt, transfix'd"

Dixon felt "a surrender to Power....upon which all Government is founded"
 !!!

Whoa. Band of riders. From Westerns, also night riders in the history of
(mostly Southern) America. [Robert Penn Warren has a novel named after
them] I remember those riders reappearing in Against the Day, don't you,
are they, conceptually, alike? ....I also remember the history of riders in
the Trystero, right? ....

What mythic Jacobite rebellion we talkin'  here? ......The rebellion
against the English day, as it were? ......Rebellion in general throughout
History?......Dixon felt a surrender
to it---its just causes?---but then a retreat because it would found a
Government ("to my sorrow"). "Never Again."

Is there, perhaps, an implication in the text alone that all Power, even
the good rebellions, corrupts---at its source, so to speak and point to the
conjunctions TRP made clearly here.
Misc: " The places that Cormac McCarthy described ominously as “provinces
of night".

Is Dixon's pure Quakerism a kind of anti-government rebuke? Some sympathy
with anarcho-libertarianism- to throw labels around like Warhol
silkscreening soup cans?

Lots of our author's moral sympathies lie with Dixon, right?