BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[H. R. Riley]

Way behind here, but 11 September is military. Different conventions,
different perspectives?


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> BUT perhaps it's entirely appropriate (and deliberate) that this abrupt
>> and STRIKING shift in voice occurs when it does. The novel's
>> form reflecting the atrocity itself, subjecting the reader to a kind of
>> authorial violence (we are suddenly told what to think of all this)
>>
>
> Wow! & What?  Violence via tone shift?
>
> I agree that those three paragraphs read like an essay. P surely knows
> what he did here in this most central point of his 11-9 novel.  It is
> admission of ignorance as much as an asking of forgiveness for paranoia.
>  But not a complete retreat.  The Paper of Record is a stand-in for blind
> consumerism info, his common refrain.
>
> Any idea why he goes 11 September vs 9-11?
>
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