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[Ghetta Life]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>Well, there is nothing wrong a teenager having a job at a pizza place or in 
>a Mall. Nothing wrong with kids helping out on the family farm. If my 
>neighbor decides to call his kid Moon Iridescence Rising Over Nuristan (we 
>call him Miron) that's not my business. But in Vineland, having a job in 
>the Mall is not like having a job in the Mall in your typical American town 
>or city. In Lecture for Good Readers and Writers Nabokov talks about 
>dealing with the fictional world that the artist created. That's all I'm 
>trying to do here.  We have to see how it holds together first.

Right.  I understand your meaning.  But I guess if in Pynchon's VL fictional 
world there is a difference, he's not made much of a case for it, not that I 
can see...  And I'm NOT a stickler for realism.  Not even close.

Ghetta

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