NPPF: Who's watching Gradus?
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 17 08:40:10 CDT 2003
--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
>
> I agree -- and had the same impression -- that the narrator knows too much
about Gradus and his story, especially toward the end when Gradus becomes fully
realized -- er real-ized? -- and the level of detail grows quite vivid.
We readers know that there is no possible way for ANYONE to know as much about
Gradus's journey as Kinbote relates to us - UNLESS the speaker was Gradus.
Otherwise I think we have to chalk it up to Kinbote's imagination. This whole
question brings to mind Stencil's "Stecilizations."
David Morris
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