Fwd: M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz

[Mark Kohut]

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Why did he not have Cherrycoke tell it all, ya think? and.... that old
modernist staple [started with The Good Soldier] of
ye unreliable narrator......wha?

p. 8 "stoven, dismasted, imbecile with age---an untrustworthy
Remembrancer [see---all on the surface]
for whom the few events yet rattling within a broken mamory must
provide the only comfort no remaining to him,---

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:27 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> All I see is the Omniscient Narrator handing off to Cherrycoke here. Are you talking about the book as a whole, or just this section?
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> Cherrycoke is a stand-in for Pynchon himself, perhaps? Family outcast, paid money to keep away? Well, no. But famous reclusive, one-time writer of something labeled "obscene," long-time bachelor, no real job other than being a highly-paid (relative to most working drones) writer, now ensconced solidly within a family setting and telling a tale.
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> LK
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Jan 5, 2015 1:00 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz
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>>Who is narrating?, or should that be Who are narrating?
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>>And what does that imply, maybe, in various ways, about the tale?
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>>25 words or fewer..
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