MDDM Ch. 70 Higher Assembly

[Doug Millison]

Mr T :
>Right, this has been your point in the current discussion.

Nope.  Since '97, in the first group reading of M&D.  You could look it up.

In the current discussion, jbor has several times stated that this or that
passage couldn' be narrated by Wicks, and I've disagreed in those
instances, or asked why. This hasn't changed my agreement with you both on
the larger question, that M&D has many narrators, Wicks among them.

I have also said, in the current discussion, that I think jbor
underestimates the capacities of an oral storyteller, judging from jbor's
comments about Wicks in M&D.  It appears that we all agree on the sometimes
formidable powers of oral storytellers, so I'm not sure why the effort here
to distort what I've said.


>since both me and Robert misunderstood your position


Yes, you both appear to have misunderstood.


Commmon ground:  M&D has many narrators, Wicks among them.

Common ground mentioned the other day:  Pynchon honors multiple
perspectives in M&D and in his other novels.

There's no need to argue about these two points, and no possiblity of doing
so, unless you misrepresent what positions I've maintained consistently
here about M&D, and Pynchon's other work, since '97.

But, have it as you like, Mr T and jbor.  We could continue to discuss
things here, or you can try to start an argument by twisting what I have
said, or setting up a straw man.  It's up to you, I'll follow your lead.


Still flame-free,
Doug