BEER, Who Wants to Know? narratorial thread

[Michael Bailey]

Riffing on who wants to know...

like the old Trident gum commercial: "who wants gum?" To which the
enthusiastic answer is always a chorus of, "i do! I do!"

& of course it's also an invitation to speculate on one's own identity -
who am I, this entity who wants to know - and indeed what is the nature of
identity? (but perhaps these are not primary intentions at this juncture)
On Oct 13, 2013 1:41 PM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Monte writes (about Maxine and Reg first meeting in the book):
>
> "Sentence by sentence, ask "who's telling me this?" Are we listening to
> Maxine's memory of a casual cruise-ship flirtation -- provisionally Reg,
> then probably Joel? Are we being warned that flirtation is her destined
> route to places considerably darker than a NYC co-op wrangle? Hey. Who
> wants
> to know?"
>
> Once again, yes, and this ain't the last time.....
>
> Do some riffing on "Who Wants to Know" y'all.....go deeper than my word
> "attitude".
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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