How to read DAHLGREN

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Bob N. complains:
"I found Dahlgren to be the biggest literary waste of time I ever
encountered. It kept promising the possibility of a plot JUST enough to keep
me from tossing it aside but when I was finished I had gained NOTHING. I
only recommend it to people I don't like."


DAHLGREN, like GR, is not a book that one should read for "plot."  Notice
that the end--like FINNEGAN'S WAKE--leads back to the beginning.  Look at
the book's epigraph: "You have confused the true and the real" and yourself
which is which?

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)