BEER Group Read. The looseness, the attitude

[Mark Kohut]

I think you'd be right...I fell into 'free indirect' as a kind of overall generalization. 
That exactness does show more the nature of the looseness. I, too, think it is wonderful.

Lots more of it in BE. Lotsa incomplete sentences too. Who has time for complete
sentences when narrating NYC?. 


----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. The looseness, the attitude

A wonderful opening paragraph. I'd argue that the perspective shifts 
from third-person narrator to free indirect discourse to free direct 
discourse ("so?"). Rather loose indeed.

Thomas


Am 13.10.2013 03:27, schrieb Mark Kohut:
> 'It's the first day of spring 2001, and Maxine Tarnow, though some still have her in the system as Loeffler,
> is walking her boys to school. Yes maybe they're past the age where they need an escort, maybe Maxine
> doesn't want to let go just yet, it's only a couple blocks, it's on her way to work, she enjoys it, so?"

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