V-2nd - 2: Part II - questions, comments?

[David Payne]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 (14:46:56 -0400), kelber at mindspring.com wrote:


> Could Profane and/or Pynchon be narrating Chapter 1, while the character Stencil assumes the narrator-ship of Chapter 2? Look at the differing portrayals of Rachel in the two chapters: Weird but mesmerizing, horny chick in Profane's chapter; deeply contemplative woman in Stencil's.
 
That's an interesting obs about how Rachel's protrayed differently by two different narrators. We'll have to watch to see if that trend continues in subsequent chapters.
 
Do you think that the alternating narrators is a conscious echo of some other work, like Bleakhouse, or do you think that this just the result of mashing a couple of short stories together into a novel, the setting up of the twin tales up as two stems on a V running toward each other? 		 	   		  
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