"He thinks he's hallucinating" m

[Mark Kohut]

Taking off from Michael's rhetirical question about what it tell us about who is 
addressed:
 
I would also suggest that the dropping of such personal and interpersonal
pronouns shows an immediate familiarity and closeness.......it does in 
Shakespeare
 
Compare your own self's life....
 
In this case, once you've been a couple, the "He"'s and the "I"'s sorta merge 
for a certain kind
of 60s girl/woman.....................


 


----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 3:24:55 PM
Subject: Re: "He thinks he's hallucinating" m

Notice too, that Shasta drops the subject pronous in several statements here:

"[He] Thinks he's hallucinating."

"[I] Need your help, Doc."

"[I] Just spent an hour..."

Notice how Pynchon "decomposes and discomposes his own style" here.

Shasta begins a non-interrroagative sentence with "Is" for example.

She talks like Zoyd's friend, Van Meter.