CoL49 (6) What She was Pregnant with

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 09:23:12 CDT 2009


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?



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