Melville and MiddleWork

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Ther inage of the card table being discussed now, IMO, is a metafictional
 trope, in which the text evokes an image of its own operational methods
--here the illusion of *depth* created by a pattern of lines on a
 two-dimensional surface = the book you're reading.  
Makes sense to me, but--whaddya you think?

john m
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The Manta concludes w/ a question--
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>As far as metafiction goes, though, I'm having a hard time seeing Mason and
>Dixon as an example of it. It seems pretty straightforward technically to
>me...
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>MantaRay
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