Some finer points of grammar

[Alan Westrope]

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On Thu, 08 May 1997, jeremy at xyris.com (Jeremy Osner) wrote:

>It's interesting that many curse words are bleeped out (for instance
>d---l), but fuck is not. Any thoughts?

My impression is that the dashes occur when Rev. Cherrycoke is uttering
words like G-d and d---l, but not when the characters in his tale are.
This reminds me of the remarks by reviewers to the effect that Pynchon
largely ignores his narrator once the story proper is underway.  I
disagree!  I think Cherrycoke is a wonderful example Pynchon's use of
recursion in a cinematic manner (recall, say, episode 14 of GR).  When
the narrative shifts from the story of M&D to the story of Cherrycoke
and his listeners, I'm reminded of films like Amadeus, not to mention
literary classics like the 1001 Nights, Canterbury Tales, the Decameron...
(I think I recall a recent thread here about the use of the frame-tale.)

Thanks also to Richard Romeo for the response, and Best Wishes, TRP!

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