A Novel Experience

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Strong seconds to this remark of Don L's:

john m
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>But I wouldn't scant the metafiction of M&D.  If not as labyrinthine as
>Borges or even Barth, the presence of tales-within-tales, the slippery
>nature of Cherrycoke's "narration" and the more overt anachronisms and
>intertextuality must give one pause.  It is certainly no less metafictional
>than V.  One thing that stands out for me is the way in which the reading
>of THE GHASTLY FOP entangles itself within the general narration--but
>the MDMD will come to that anon.