MDDM Ch. 69 "certainly not Wicks"

[Doug Millison]

Sure about that, are you?  Ever heard Robin Williams, or Jonathan Winters,
or another comic move madly from one voice/characterization to the next,
almost without taking a breath, occupying the characters' POV's in turn,
exploring first one and then the other's fantasies, fears, whatever,
knowing that his audience will keep up?

Listening to the Books-on-Tape version of of M&D is worth the time and
effort, it makes it quite easy to suspend belief and accept Pynchon's
conceit that the novel is a story told by Wicks.  I think your
understanding of what a storyteller (such as Pynchon creates in Wicks) can
do, narratologically, is quite a bit more limited than M&D demonstrates.


At 8:41 AM +1100 8/9/02, jbor wrote:
>NB the paragraph at 675-6 where the narration emulates Mason & Dixon's train
>of thought, momentarily shifting into and then out of a type of dual
>stream-of-consciousness. Again, it's almost certainly not Wicks.
>