VV (20) The Xebec

[Samuel Moyer]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>



Samuel Moyer at smoyer at satx.rr.com wrote:
>
> > Trying to follow the narrator in this novel can be tricky, at least for
a
> > novice like myself.  What about in chapters 1, 2, etc... though, is this
the
> > same narrator as the Epilogue?
>
> I think the tone and focus is different in the chapters where we follow
the
> exploits of Benny and the WSC. The Epilogue has the same historical or
> historicist cast to it as the chapters which Herbert S. narrates, but I'm
> probably 100% sure that it's not him. Nominating it as an "epilogue"
> highlights its extraneity to the rest of the text.
>

I agree, I think the tone is different.  And I do not think Stencil narrates
it either.  So would that make Four narrators, counting Fausto (right)?


> > When is Victoria likely to be pregnant?  Florence right?  I need time...
> > this novel is not for working fathers...
>
> Sleeping on it, when Sidney S. thinks "His father. Ha." to himself right
at
> the end there it could be self-contempt for his lack of fatherly attention
> to his son over the years rather than a doubt about young Herbert's
> paternity. I'm not sure, though. The two paragraphs before this tell us
that
> Herbert would be 18, which makes him born sometime after June 1900 -- and
> perhaps 1901 -- and imply that Victoria W. accompanied Sidney S. back to
> England for a time as, perhaps, a de facto wife of sorts, but that she was
> unfaithful to him there (if not also in Florence). I think there is irony
> beyond that which Sidney S. admits to himself in this Epilogue.
>
> best
>
I also recall that in some place it is written:  Stencil was born in time to
be the century's child.  So my guess is that he was born right at the
beginning of 1901.

Sam