GRGR(3) a. talking dog 44.2 - a bone to pick

[rj]

> The problem is that we can't be sure, not that it's all true
> (because to claim truth it, after all, to remove uncertainty).

What I'm saying is that we get a whole bunch of 'truths' -- what the
characters believe is the truth, their versions -- in the narrative.
What I'm saying is that as readers we need to be able to 'double read'
the text, get outside whatever our own personal truth is in order to
appreciate the full scope of this pluralism.

To illustrate, I don't think you can pin down *Pynchon's* belief-system
from his texts as you can with Eco's Catholicity or Rushdie's lapsed
Islam or DeLillo's lapsed Catholicism.

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