GRGR(6) - section 8

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jul 26 17:50:21 CDT 1999


rj wrote:

> Carl Barrington is an imaginary friend.

OK, we talking about the same story.

> Slothrop's 'real' as Shit'N'Shinola.

Can you be more specific?


> There's an enormous difference between them in terms of
> both characterisation and narrativization.

Yes enormous.

> They are not comparable.

Why not?

P.S. Before leaving this chapter we might note the Pynchon's "errors" with
time have not been addressed.

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