Firelily's rider

[Ya Sam]

Been re-reading V. recently. It is still difficult to believe that it was 
written by a guy in his twenties. What a book! The most puzzling, at least 
for me, remains Mondaugen's story. Reality and surreal visions are 
interwoven to such an extent that even upon a second reading it's difficult 
to make sense of this narrative. I rifled through the V. group read and 
could not find any discussion about the identity of the narrator of the 
'hallucinatory' 1904 flashback referred to as Firelily's rider. Is he and 
Foppl one and the same person? Or maybe some metaphyical stuff is at work?

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