Chapter 3 Arrangement

Brian D. McCary bdm at colossus.storz.com
Sun Jun 23 11:55:15 CDT 1996


This chapter is told, nominally, from Stencil's point of view.  Just before
this series of vignettes, there is a discussion of why Stencil refers to 
himself in the third person: it is to remove himself from the seen, so
as to observe objectively.  (Again, I can't quote the relevant passage, since
my book isn't with me.)  Stencil is imagining himself to be each of these
people, waitress, anachist, conductor, ect, to reconstruct the details of
this particular event for himself, searching for clues.  Now I'm wondering
who the observer in the closing scene, at the time of the assasination, 
is supposed to be....

Brian McCary





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