GRGR(6) - section 8 (#3)

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:

> Weisenburger (though I think his GRC a great companion)  is dead wrong. There
> are no proleptic and analeptic jump cuts. Pynchon follows his mentor
> Melville--and specifically, Melville's "The Confidence Man." Pynchon can count
> and so can Melville. April fools. Here comes the rocket or chamber pot.

Well, in a way, analepsis and prolepsis are only a convenience (not to
say a crutch or crutchfield), to help us poor neurologically deficient 
mortals in securing  some foothold  in a multi-dimensionally undefined
p-universe. In the end, time judgements are largely irrelevant.


			P.