ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing

[John BAILEY]

In an unsettling coincidence, after posting my thoughts about the
Trespassers as Readers yesterday I went home and read the following
passage in Murakami's new book (itself largely concerned with the
problem of a reader's transcendent POV):

"Our point of view, as an imaginary camera, picks up and lingers over
things like this in the room. We are invisible, anonymous intruders. We
look. We listen. We note odors. But we are not physically present in the
place, and we leave behind no traces. We follow the same rules, so to
speak, as orthodox time travellers." 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, 2 April 2007 7:24 PM
To: John BAILEY; pynchon -l
Subject: RE: ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing


--- John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:

> I also read one aspect of the Trespassers (amongst the several the 
> novel creates, Iceland
> Spar-like) as us, as readers, making forays into the past and bringing

> with us ghosts of future death and chaos - projecting backwards, 
> contemporary horrors carried into the past by the fact of our 
> reading....

Very interesting.  But, nevertheless ...
 
> is this what makes the Trespassers so unsettling and shady?  that they

> are looking back if not in desperation to flee the future then for 
> some other nefarious reason?


 
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