MDMD Outlaws

[CyrusGeo at netscape.net]

If you will allow me to say so, Wicks Cherrycoke is as reliable and trustworthy a storyteller as any. He may not be entirely truthful as to the facts, but he is 100 percent truthful as to himself and his own feelings. Story-telling, anyway, is not about the facts, but about the narrator's response to the facts (if there are any facts involved at all). The way he remembers things is not necessarily the way they happened, but it certainly is the way he perceived them, the way they make sense to him. Story-telling is not supposed to be history, therefore factual accuracy is not so important, though Pynchon includes just enough to tickle us. [Even Thukydides (often called "father of history") makes up the speeches he narrates so as to convey the general meaning of the speeches that actually took place.] The following quotation (sorry, I can't remember where I read it) seems to me to grasp the essence of story telling:
"The persons and events depicted in this story are entirely real, since I made them all up myself."

Cyrus


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