BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[Robin Landseadel]

We all know the author's voice by now, we've read his "non-fiction,"  
snuck a look at his letters to others, berating The Crying of Lot 49  
before it was published, riffing on "Jon Stewart" as a commercial  
enterprise, telling us all that taking a theoretical concept and  
making a whole novel out of it may not be the best idea in the world.  
We know that voice, we know when he's speaking to us. It's usually  
smartass but it's still his voice. There's more of that in this novel  
then there is in AtD or M & D. He played fast and loose with narrative  
convention in those two and we are all the richer for that. Yes, the  
mask goes all the way off as regards his personal "Tuskunga Event",  
the intervention of another world into his own, abruptly. Throughout  
the book he is repeating what he said in The Crying of Lot 49, all we  
would be seeing if only we looked.

He reports—you decide.

On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

>
> "Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only
> in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be
> left within the reach of anyone in Power, -- who need but touch her,
> and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never
> been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by
> fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry
> Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and
> Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or
> even the Curiosity, of Government."
> --Mason & Dixon, Chapter 35, pg. 350


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