SLSL Intro, "almost, but not quite me..."

[JL]

mutualcode :

 >I don't trust this Intro Narrator, not one drop. I think he's selling
 >bridges.

so, to what extent should we read the intro as a short story?

nice essay in the Guardian yesterday (Sat) by David Lodge.  He expounds
on the prevalence of mock-confessional narratives in modern fiction :

  ' It is not coincidental that the boundary between first-person
   literary fiction and autobiography is becoming increasingly
   blurred.  Some of the most interesting and widely-acclaimed
   books of recent years in Britain and America have been of a
   kind sometimes called 'life writing' -- memoirs or confessions
   that read like novels, that use many of the techniques of
   novels [...]

    In a world where nothing is certain, in which transcendental
   belief has been undermined by scientific materialism, and
   even the objectivity of science is qualified by relativity
   and uncertainty, the single human voice, telling its own story,
   can seem the only authentic way of rendering consciousness. '


JL