GRGR(20) "Young Fool"

[jbor]

Good post. I've never been able to get a proper handle on this 
metonymy/metaphor distinction, however. Mendelson appropriates it in his
definition of the "encyclopedic narrative" (the Intro to his *Collection of
Critical Essays*, p.9), and I think it derives from Roman Jakobson and
Morris Halle's work on aphasia. Anyway, I think I understand the way Berlin
functions as a cipher for the rest of politically-partitioned and regulated
world outside the anarchic Zone, but how is it metonymyic?

best

----------

>From: jp4321 at idt.net (jporter)
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: GRGR(20) "Young Fool"
>Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2000, 1:30 PM
>

> Viking, 441.3, we read;
>
>   "'Young Fool,' Saure now comes cackling in from out in Berlin."
>
> Emil, a witch of sorts- a wiz if ever a wiz there was- wizened by
> experience, comes in *from Berlin,* which, presumably, is a stand in for
> everything else *out there,* a narrative distinction or boundary thus
> subtley created by metonymy. Of course, like the wiz, it was Emil who sent
> S out after the hash, in order to win approval and a trip back to Kansas,
> presumably by S-gerat. Who needs ruby slippers?

snip

----------