Watts article

[Malignd]

<<Quotation marks = direct speech.>>

Quotation marks are intended to indicate to a reader
that what is contained is direct speech.

<<With the second example, even though it's attributed
as "they'll tell you", the speaker actually refers to
himself as "I" ("I mean", "the way I feel").>>

"The speaker" who refers to himself as "I" is "they"
and Pynchon is noting what they "will" tell you.  This
makes sense to you?

<<Why would Pynchon make up a first person utterance
and then label it with a third person attribution?>>

Why indeed?  Good question.




	
		
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