GRGR(5) Enzian

[Jeremy Osner]

rj wrote:

> > I wondered about the passage: Do you reckon "Christian
> > sins, jackal-ghosts, potent European strand-wolves, pursuing him,
> > seeking to feed on his soul, the precious worm that lived along his
> > backbone" is a list of things that Enzian fears? And, is this sentence
> > Enzian's version or Weissman's? Or some third party's?
>
> I think the pronoun "he" is implied throughout the passage, but I also
> think that narrative agency is privy to Enzian's thoughts: he strove to
> "cage his old gods", Weissman "seemed" like a scholar and lover of words
> (i.e. to Enzian). (One of the critics uses the term "filtering" to
> describe the way narrative in Pynchon works through the characters. This
> is a useful analogy, I think.)

I guess what I was on about is: are these Enzian's thoughts? or Weissman's
paternalistic belief that he knows what Enzian is thinking?

J