AtD--How Does it Fit

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 17/09/2006, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> 'The Japanese Insurance Adjustor'

Yes, the "Japanese Insurance Adjustor" is Takeshi in Vineland I think.

Isn't it also possible that what P. mentioned in passing as his 
intentions in a letter over 40 ago years evolved somewhat in the 
meantime. I mean, he can't have envisioned Vineland back when the 
letter was written because neither of the primary historical contexts 
had yet occurred.

But Takeshi (Vineland's Takeshi) seems like he was part of a plan. (And 
Takeshi is indeed a recurring character. Timewarped in with his magic 
card on Kahuna Airlines from the Komikal Kamikazes show on the Tube in 
GR).

I agree that it's interesting to think of the writing process P. 
undertakes. V. has always struck me as a series of short stories strung 
into one another (very deftly and artfully), and perhaps the subsequent 
works do the same sort of thing except with an extended scope and more 
assured historical grounding.

I'd be pretty sure one of Bodine's ancestors will have a naval role 
somewhere in AtD. New recurrences: maybe one of Tchitcherine's or 
Djabazev's (sp.) parents?

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