BEER Group Read. The looseness, the attitude

[Monte Davis]

"Rather loose indeed" -- indeed, indeed. Ever since GR, Pynchon for me has
been above all that supple indeterminacy of voice, shuffling first-, second-
and third-person narration (often multiple narrative voices at that) at the
sentence, paragraph, scene, and chapter level.

He doesn't do it all the time, but he can do it at any time; we hardly
notice any more, except when it's flagged as you've done here. And when he
does, he (1) blows away like tissue all the good, sound advice ever given to
writers about consistency of voice/PoV, or at least the necessity of
signaling changes... and (2) opens up nifty epistemological and even
ontological questions about what constitutes the "inside" and "outside" of
consciousness in fictional narrative.

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Thomas Eckhardt
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:30 AM
To: Mark Kohut
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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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