M&D, formerly some finer points of grammar

[Alan Westrope]

On Thu, 08 May 1997, Alan Westrope wrote:

>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.

That *was* my impression throughout a sizable chunk of text, but I just
encountered Mason saying "G-d."  Pray continue your reading unencumbered
by this demonstration of my idiocy.

The question of Narrative Voice is an interesting one, though, and I
expect it will get really weird when "The Ghastly Fop" shows up.  M&D
should keep what Mendelson calls "IG Pynchon" busy for quite a while!

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