M&D preambulatory profferings

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Cherrycoke's description of his past, as "impersonating" a pastor, sounds more ironically self-deprecating than truthful. I.e. he really is a pastor, but never a solidly mainstream one. Less concerned with leading the flock, more concerned with making waves. This echoes Pynchon's description of his early years as a writer in Slow Learner. His early writings make him cringe, but he still kind of likes them (or he wouldn't be broadcasting them).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 6, 2015 5:19 AM

>
>Exploring that META:
>
>Rev Cherrycoke is a self-described unreliable narrator. Among other
>things in the best fictions, it means that the teller, he as narrator
>misses, fails to see (some) reality that matters, is blinded to it
>because of something in his character/being. (see The Good Soldier,
>Remains of the Day, lotsa others)
>
>The Rev: 'After years wasted at perfecting a parsonical disguise',
>grown old in the service of an Impersonation that never took more than
>a Handful of actor's tricks"......
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