Fw: Re: CoL49 (6) What She was Pregnant with

[Mark Kohut]

And the “you” is everybody. ....[from early in L49 re 'She Loves You'.}

--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CoL49 (6) What She was Pregnant with
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10:23 AM
> E.g., ...
> 
> "She favors you, most of all. You'll never get to see
> her.  So
> somebody had to tell you." (GR, Pt. III, p. 472)
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/472.htm
> 
> But here I think "your" is rather more prosaic, "your
> gynecologist"
> being simply a colloquial way of saying "gynecologists"
> ...
> 
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > As I recall, there's a- couple-two-three examples in
> GR.
> >
> > On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:06 PM, David Payne wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry to side-step the question, but regarding
> "your" -- a narrator
> >> suddenly talking about *you* -- this is rare in
> Pynchon, is it not?
> >>
> >> It happens 4 or 5 times in CoL49, but I don't
> recall this in the other
> >> novels.
> >>
> >> Anyone else?
>