Melville and MiddleWork

[Thomas Vieth]

But there is something much more straight forward metafictional. 
Remember that spot (can't recal the page number) where there is talk of 
the character of novels (it's either in the 200s or 300s, sorry, you'll 
have to look it up yourself.

Thomas Vieth
Down with Triolahidi
Long live Hollerodullyo


----Original Message Follows----
From:	<MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu>
To:	pynchon-l at waste.org
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:56:26 PST
Subject:       Re: Melville and MiddleWork
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--
>
>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...
>
>MantaRay
>



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