The reader trap of jailbait

[krafftjm at miavx2.ham.muohio.edu]

Careful there: Bianca _isn't_ 11 or 12; she must be in her mid teens.  
She _seems_ younger to Slothrop, which tells us something about him and about
ourselves as readers.  (You may say the difference isn't very significant 
to the main question, but . . .)  See Bernard Duyfhuizen's essay in 
_PMC_ 2.1 (1991) on the reader trap of Bianca.

jmk

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