M&D preambulatory profferings

[Mark Kohut]

If Cherrycoke is self-written as part of Pynchon, then I would add
these resonances:

Pynchon was very religiously Catholic, into college we know. Whatever
his 'religious' spirtual beliefs
are now, they seem to be some kind of heretical, metaphorically speaking.

And, if he saw his earlier work as like fire-and-brimstone warnings,
as full of warning like a preacher
might offer his audience, he now is not religious nor pastor-like in
telling this story.

Speculatively, he may be 'telling us' only a self-defrocked minister
can now tell the story of
Mason & Dixon in America." God's on our side", that strain of American
exceptionalism?. Bullshit.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:01 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> 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).
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> Laura
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> -----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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