Fantasy Island

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Craig Clark asserts:
"There's a thought... but equally the reader is "having other people's
fantasies" (including the fantasies of Thomas Pynchon). All of which
is to say that here is a novel which effectively blurs the boundary
lines between reader, writer and character..."


A good point here: it seems to be a consistent theme in P.'s work, building
from at least "Lowlands" (stories being the "truth of a true lie") through
the "Stencilizing" of other people's tales in V., to Oedipa wondering if
she should "project a world."

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)