Evan Godolphin
Teen Age Riot
alwang at eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Tue Jun 18 15:13:24 CDT 1996
>
> Anybody else find Evan Godolphin difficult to envision? When we
> see him first he is a pudgy, innocent, overgrown lad, and next time he
> appears, in the Epilogue, he is a gaunt, deformed old man. I just can't
> get a proper vignette in the old mindseye...
I struggled with it the first coupla readings too. Really you have three
images to contend with- Shoenmaker's(sp) Spad-flying herodolphin,
Florence's adolescentdolphin, and then Quasimodolphin. Quite a headache.
Al
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