VLVL Takeshi

[jbor]

>> We're told (by a
>> narrator) that DL and Takeshi told Prairie these stories; we see Prairie
>> interrupting DL and Takeshi on a number of occasions and these interruptions
>> are constituted in the text as direct speech; and, on top of this,
>> throughout the chapter the characters' first person narration segues into
>> embellished third person narrative, a fairly standard realist device.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "a fairly standard realist device." Would
> you provide an example from a non-Pynchon text.

Well -- reaching up and pulling down a likely candidate from the shelf at
random -- check out the opening of _Madame Bovary_, which begins as first
person recount ("We were in class when the headmaster came in ... "),
documents the scene incorporatingv direct speech, and then gradually shifts
into detached third person narration which details Charles' childhood. You
only need to read the first three pages.

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