Forgive the intrusion, please. I need a word.

[Tiarnan O'Corrain]

Didactic fiction?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:davidmmonroe at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 08 November 2001 18:40
> To: Paul Mackin; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Forgive the intrusion, please. I need a word.
> 
> 
> Q: Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine
> to all the chicks?
> 
> A: Shaft.  Damn right ...
> 
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > What's the name for a novel that answers all your
> > past confusions, uncertainties misconceptions,
> guilts 
> > about yourself and everybody else, thereby literally
> > changing your  life and supplying debating points
> for
> > every occasion imaginable?
> > 
> > Answer: Gravity's Rainbow.
> 
> But, Cat, are you looking for "Bildungsroman"?  Though
> I think Terrance was probably right with "Exemplary
> Novel" or somesuch ...
> 
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