Fwd: M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz

[Mark Kohut]

C'mon Everyone....go a--guessing with Laura. it is fun.

Lew Archer is the detective as truth-finder in AtD. He experiences
epiphanies, artist's truths.

I'll bloviate more if others jump in

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:08 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> A side question: Does Pynchon have a character that he identifies with (or whose voice he speaks through) in his other novels? Profane, Slothrop, Zoyd, Doc? Maybe Oedipa and Maxine? Harder to discern in ATD. Here, I think Cherrycoke best represents him (which is not to say that the lugubrious, paranoid mason, and the more sanguine, humorous Dixon don't reflect aspects of his personality).
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> He experiments with distancing himself from the storyteller as early as V - as Stencil relates Mondaugen's Story.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Jan 5, 2015 1:54 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Fwd: M & D Deep Duck Read. Pop quiz
>>
>>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?
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>>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,---
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>>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
>>>>
>>>>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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