M&D: Cowart article/ch.35

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Sun Aug 8 16:22:29 CDT 1999


Just on this, I'll repeat a question I asked exactly a year ago:

> I wonder if
> anyone who has read _M&D_ more recently and more thoroughly than I 
> can
> clarify why Uncle Ives' rebuke to his "Son" on p.350 appears to be
> addressed to Ethelmer, whereas on p.96 Ives' son is said to be 
> DePugh.

There does at times seem to be some confusion about who is speaking, and
who is who, in this familial colloquium, although I'm reluctant to
attribute this as a "mistake" (Pynchon's *or* Cowart's). 

best



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