GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman

[Doug Millison]

At 1:25 PM -0700 6/9/99, Keith Woodward wrote:[snip]
>And in that way it feels almost exclusine at the same time
>that it feels inclusive; the reader (who on some level recognizes a sense of
>being the addressee at the same time that Pointsman may be addressing
>himself) is at once drawn into and alienated from the text.

Interesting observation, but so what? This seems the sort of observation
that could be made about any number of novels, of this century and
centuries previous. Narrative tricks are nothing new in novel-writing. That
TRP plays word games of all sorts is obvious.  Seems safe to say TRP is out
to blow our minds, make us laugh, make us question our own perceptions,
make us question the powers that be, the received wisdom, & etc., in every
way that he can. Does TRP actually add something new to the writer's bag of
tricks, or does he merely (HAH!) offer brilliant, stunning, mind-boggling
instances of techniques that have been around for a very long time?

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