BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 22:15:54 CST 2013


And Most Importantly, we are not told what to think. We are told what
current thoughts are happening, without taking sides.

On Friday, November 15, 2013, David Morris 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?
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20131115/9ca3bde3/attachment.html>


More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list