MDDM Scalping Lord Lepton

[jbor]

on 29/6/04 10:48 PM, jbor wrote:

> [I]n a typically postmodernist gesture Pynchon leaves the identity of the
> victim indeterminate. Only M&D know for sure whose scalp it is; the
> information is deliberately withheld from the reader. In fact, it's a reversal
> of traditional dramatic irony. [680-1]

And, just like all the different manifestations of second person address in
_GR_, this too is a reflexive strategy; suddenly all that the mirror of the
text reflects is an image of the reader engaged in an act of reading.

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