VLVL2(3): Hector's fall
Tim Strzechowski
dedalus204 at comcast.net
Sat Aug 16 21:48:46 CDT 2003
>
> While it's detached narration, it's describing the way Hector perceived
> himself. In other words, the narration is filtered through Hector's pov
> (note the way Hector's idiosyncratic conversational tic of a Spanish
> interjection followed by the English translation -- "*ay muere*, too
bad" --
> is incorporated into the narration). The paragraph switches to filtering
> Zoyd's pov at 29.30, and this narrative strategy mirrors the earlier
> paragraph at 24-5 which switches between the way Zoyd perceived the PI
> situation and the way Hector perceived it.
>
Yes, Rob, and thank you for articulating *much better* what I had attempted
(poorly) in my previous post regarding the pov in the p. 29 paragraph.
Tim
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