V.V. (16) Esther and Slab
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Fri May 25 18:30:13 CDT 2001
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>From: Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net>
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> It's interesting to see how precisely somebody can identify Pynchon's voice
> in among those of his many narrators, when it suits the purposes of a
> current argument.
No, Doug. As I said, Pynchon, by way of a detached narrative statement (not
a "narrator" at all), uses the word "phony" to describe the argument, and
the tactic.
> We all read the Pynchon we want to read, that's a
> certainty.
Perhaps that's your intention ... it's not necessarily anyone else's.
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