VLVL(6): Prairie

[David Casseres]

At 0:53 -0800 12/7/98, rj wrote:
>In many ways it is Prairie who is the blank page of this novel. The bulk
>of the last half dozen or so chapters has consisted of recounts of
>characters' experiences explicitly for her benefit and elucidation....
>One by one the characters tell their stories to Prairie.=

[and more]

I had not noticed the structural importance of this, or the subtext it
conveys.  Thanx for a very useful insight.

>Prairie is tabula rasa, the wide open plains: she is America to be.

Oooh yes.  We'll be revisiting this in the last few pages of the book.

Cheers,
David