VLVL defining terms

[Otto]

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From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz at concentric.net>
To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL defining terms


> >>> That doesn't make him a mythic figure. <<<
>
>  From a postmodern point of view, we're all mythical figures.
>

"We're all God's children, speaking literally or figuratively. Our mommies
and daddies are all kings and queens whom we shall have to displace, and our
conceptions were extraordinary vecasue they engendered the uniqueness of
each of us."

John Barth, "The Friday Book," p. 47