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[Doug Millison]

At 6:33 PM +1100 8/6/02, jbor wrote:
>doug:
>> (something that Pynchon doesn't seem to say,
either),
>> but why the need to explain it that way, it seems a
>> tad cumbersome, rather more elegant to give Wicks
the
>> honors and honor the author's conceit.
>
>And what would that conceit be, I wonder?



That Wicks is telling the story, but at the same time
that Pynchon knows that the reader knows that it's
Pynchon telling the story -- P has anticipated all of
your fancy narratological-analytic footwork and
remains several steps ahead of any reader/critic.



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