M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz

[Mark Kohut]

I think TP did write himself (even as symbolic artist) into M & D as
The Storyteller, the Rev Cherrycoke.

 I also think that
his life griefs, one we know of, best buddy Richard Farina, others we may not,
pervade a lot of Mason's grief 9for his dead wife).

Dixon, seizer of life's pleasures may be modeled (some) on Farina,
anyone think?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:36 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hello back, David! That dovetails with my view that Cherrycoke is Pynchon's stand-in - Pynchon once young, wayward and reclusive, now that nigh many years have come and gone, drawn inward to the family hearth to tell stories. Not that different from what he's doing (as omniscient narrator)in Inherent Vice - telling stories of his youth from the new perspective of family man.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>
>>Sent: Jan 5, 2015 4:01 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Cc: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz
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>>Hello,
>>Thanks for setting up this group reading.  This will be my second reading of M-&D- (my first was when it came out) but my first time publicly discussing it (or any Pynchon book, for that matter...), so I beg your pardon in advance for my hamfistedness.
>>I was wondering about the Cherrycoke frame as well.  Are there other Pynchon books that start this way, looking back from a comfortable future?  I can't think of one.
>>If  Cherrycoke is a stand-in for Mr. Pynchon, could the framing have something to do with the idea I've read (eavesdropped) here, that Pynchon started M-&D- many years earlier, set it aside to do other things (Vineland?), and returned to it later from a different place in a different America?  In M-&D-, there's the twenty year span from the tale (1766) to the telling (1786).  It seems to me that those years fairly well match with the twenty years Rip Van Winkle slept; also roughly the years from Gravity's Rainbow to M-&D- (...when we all slept?).  I'm not sure how fruitful it is to draw too many autobiographic connections, especially when there's so much rich stuff to dig around in here, but I figure I'd throw it out there.
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>>On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>>> A + +
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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?
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Who is narrating?, or should that be Who are narrating?
>>>>>
>>>>> And what does that imply, maybe, in various ways, about the tale?
>>>>>
>>>>> 25 words or fewer..
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