Mason has been edging away.
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Line 130 Vulgarized:
Mason, wanting no part of Dixon's gregarious and insulting imitation of an Italian, pretends not to be with this maniac.
Subtext:
Pynchon could be making a sex joke here! Maybe the real vulgarized line is this: "Mason, enjoying terrible racists and anti-religious jokes to the point of ecstasy, has been fiddling with himself under the table, repeatedly bringing himself to the edge of orgasm and then backing off rapidly." Probably not though. The subtext is that Mason wants to make the ampersand between the two of them bigger than usual so that sailors who might want to beat Dixon's ass for this insult will not beat Mason's ass as well. "I know the title of this book makes us seem like an inseparable pair but, I assure you, I do not approve of this kind of sordid and stereotypical mocking of others!" Or maybe Mason does enjoy this kind of humor but not in this exact setting! That's understandable too. Remember when Edgelords understood where and when their Edgelord humor would be met with like-minded Edgelords and didn't insist that they should have the right to be as racist and misogynistic as possible in every single situation presented in life? Oh wait. Has that time ever existed? Not in my lifetime! Never mind.
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