Twins (not a likely spoiler)

[Mikko Keskinen]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Greg Montalbano wrote:

> Chris Sweet comments:
> >Someone on the list mentioned how M&D might be similar to
> >The Sot-weed Factor. One of the things that has struck me
> >after finishing the first chapter is the twins, Pliny &
> >Pitt. While SWF's Eben and Anne Cooke were not twins they
> >might as well have been and twins permeate Barth's other
> >fiction. Any thoughts?
>
> Let me be the first nitpicker to point out that Eben & Anna WERE, most
> definitely, twins;
>
> (Was reading SOT-WEED FACTOR for the first time back when I was reading V
> for the first time;  have re-read them equally since.  Ah, my children,
> those were the days....)


Just a biographical aside: John (i.e., Jack) Barth has a twin sister.
Quess her name?  Jill!

Mikko