CoL49: a language question

[James Kyllo]

The second of your suggested readings.


J

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Anatoly Vorobey<avorobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>   Mucho Maas, home, bounded through the screen door. "Today was another
> defeat," he began.
>   "Let me tell you," she also began. But let Mucho go first.
> How do you read the last sentence, "But let Mucho go first"?
> As set in the narrator's voice - so it goes something like - Mucho says
> this, Oedipa says that, but let's listen to Mucho first?
> Or as describing Oedipa's decision - so it's  "But *she* let Mucho go
> first", with the pronoun elided?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Anatoly.
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>
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