The Goldfinch

[Mark Kohut]

Let me be clear, as Nixon used to say. SPOILER ALERT so, go away if necessary.

She describes her protagonist, awaking inside the Met right after a terrorist bomb blast has knocked him unconscious. Her dwelling on the material destruction around him, glass, twisted 
Metal and stuff, no light, then peeks of light and more, all remind me of the fall of the Crystal Palace  opening of GR....

I very speculatively think she may pay homage to " a progressive knotting inward" when she writes how her protagonist, moving into a twisted mess, all bent and contracted....can not get back out ( which is objectively puzzling, inn't it? I mean he has just got there in a now-still location? So, he must go deeper in before he can get out....and he does. 


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On May 10, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Feels like The Recignitions to me. But I only get the parts my wife reads aloud 
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> Allan in WV
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On May 9, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If you have read it, and you have read the opening of Gravity's Rainbow some multiple of the times you have read Gravity's Rainbow, is the influence on Ms. Tartt's opening chapter very clear---with a " there, there" homage to Catch-22---or clearly projected by this reader
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