MDDM Ch. 76 ..a sort of Shadow ever in the Room [747.27]

[David Morris]

>From: Bandwraith at aol.com
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>Johnson and Boswell seem to function as the perfect vehicle for this, and 
>Mason's  questioning of Boswell, re: whether or not Boswell himself ever 
>had "a Boswell... of your own."    [747.26], reiterates that point, and 
>emphasizes questions surrounding Wicks' role in the general narration. What 
>is Pynchon up to here? Is he confronting the reader and claiming 
>authorship, or joining us as just another reader? Or, maybe he's out to 
>defy any type of     categorization?

Before we ask "What is Pynchon up to here?" we should first ask ourselves 
why we care about this question.  Is this question not necesitated by a need 
for a clear road map?  Maybe the need to hold on to a consistent agent of 
the story is counterproductive.  And I don't think that this indeterminacy 
is a definition of POMO.  Terrance has stated thus before, essentially: 
"What's new?"!!!   And I'm beginning to wonder myself.  Stated in another 
way, couldn't the hobgoblin of the shyster of what's called called 
"Modernism" be the real culprit?  Something called "consistency" or 
"realism" is a false ruler for measuring the development of fiction.

David Morris





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