SLSL Intro: "if...I were...him"

[owen j mcgrann]

cue, stage left: confessions of fausto maijstral

pynchon I?  pynchon IV?

At 09:16 PM 11/2/2002 -0500, Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

>        On the other hand, if through some as yet undeveloped
>        technology I were to run into him today...
>
>He wouldn't be the same after the meeting would he, and the future
>would be changed, which is probably impossible. But the Intro
>narrator has nearly succeeded in doing something similar with
>good old fashioned word play. That is, he has suggested that
>the person who wrote these stories is, or was, someone else,
>who can be referred to in the third person. It is that device, I think,
>which reflects back on the narrator, and serves to underscore the
>sense that this may be a "persona." If the real author of these
>apprentice pieces is someone other than the narrator, who is the
>author of V., or GR, w/r/t this narrator?

- owen
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