SLSL Intro A Couple-Three Bonzos

[Otto]

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From: <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: SLSL Intro A Couple-Three Bonzos
>
> "Somwhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had
> nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, is nearly
> the direct opposite."
>
> There is something about Pynchon elaborating "eternal verities" about a
> matter as frought with ambiguity as communication which strikes a false
> note.
>

"Further yet, Todorov argues (...) that narrating almost literally equals
living. Here he joins Borges, but on linguistic rather than metaphysical
grounds: We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live
in them. Narrative equals language equals life: To cease to narrate, as the
capital example of Scheherazade reminds us, is to die--literally for her,
figuratively for the rest of us. One might add that if this is true, then
not only is all fiction fiction about fiction, but all fiction about fiction
is in fact fiction about life."
--John Barth, "The Friday Book", 1984, p. 236

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