unreliable?

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/03 5:30:56 PM, Erik.Burns at dowjones.com writes:


> seems to me the U.N. (heh.) is not part of the usual authorial effort to
> slowly unveil the plot, to tell the story. to achieve this in any way by
> definition some information must be withheld from the beginning and spooled
> out. that's not the point.
> 
It's not the point, nor is it what I'm saying.   A first person narrator 
won't be omniscent, but that doesn't make him unreliable, unless one insists on 
redefining terms at this juncture to make it the case.   
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