Bianca's age?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Hi,

Duffy Duyfhuizen argues - quite convincingly -
as much in his '91 PMC essay:

"However, if we dislocate our reading and
consider Bianca through cross-mapping with Ilse,
her shadow sister, we discover that she was most
likely born in 1929 and is much closer to 16 or
17 than she is to '11 or 12'."

In a footnote to this sentence he continues:
"Newman is the only reader I have come across
that comes close to dating _Alpdrucken_ (during
the filming of which Bianca was conceived) as
16 years before the text's present time (107),
and Weisenburger dates Pokler's recollection
of Ilse's conception as 'ranging back over
sixteen years, its analepsis beginning in the
late twenties, in Berlin, where the German
rocket program began as an apparently innocent
club, the Society for Space Travel' (194)."


Bernard Duyfhuizen, "'A Suspension Forever at
the Hinge of Doubt': The Reader-Trap of Bianca
in _Gravity's Rainbow_" Postmoden Culture,
Volume 2, Number 1 (September, 1991)


Best,
Heikki


On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Huh?
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> > SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
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> > JIM KNIPFEL
> > NEWS & COLUMNS
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> > Without going into all the details, let's just say
> > Bianca is first described as "a knockout, alright, 11
> > or 12, dark and lovely?" She is, in fact, roughly 16,
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> > [...]
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> > http://www.nypress.com/18/38/news&columns/knipfel.cfm
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