BEER misc. "playing with the audience"

[Mark Kohut]

So, do you think my question regarding this--the knowing narrator and (some of) Maxine's allusions DO NOT 
fall under your meanings for "playing with the audience'? 
 
You think there are very specific and a more limited use of this..(playing with the audience)? 



On Friday, October 25, 2013 4:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
  
What I meant by his playing with the audience has to do with theatrical conventions like a winking aside comment, letting us be insiders in a joke being played out.  Another aspect of this has to do with a kind of banter that is so full of exaggerated silliness that would never be heard in actual conversation.  I'll try to cite specific examples as I read on.

On Friday, October 25, 2013, Mark Kohut  wrote:

That's Morris's phrase after placing the sit-com and stereotype-casting in an older vaudeville tradition.
>
>Tentative thesis: How is BLEEDING EDGE different from P's others? Most of his others?    This is the way.  
>That knowing narrator-Maxine does a whole lot of 'playing' with our knowledge of Pynchon, right, from the paranoia
>remarks thru others....?
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