grgr (21): "you used to know what these words mean" (p. 472)

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> The meta-reader is simply Pynchon's extension of what
> Feilding was up to a long time ago (1749), drawing the
> reader into the novel, including, implicating, YOU,
> constantly soliciting participation. McHale puts a
> Postmodern spin on it, usually with the mirror, that mirror
> has been around since Plato, but it keeps turning. In these
> postmodern (Sophistic, sorry rj) days, when "TEXTS" are the
> world, a new semantic epoch, we've been here before, the
> mirror is held up to YOU, surprised?  


USED TO BE rj. To whom these days the mirror is also being held up to (in
as sense).

			P.