M & D Deep Duck, deeper into the Audience.

[Mark Kohut]

As we have discussed, Rev Cherrycoke is telling his story--
"Why haven't we heard a Tale about America?", sez Pitt, licking Pudding"
to three young 'uns, Pitt, Pliny and Tenebrae. If he doesn't keep Them
entertained, his storytelling is over.

They want History perhaps as it gets told to 'the masses', we
Americans who get their
news, even their history as tabloid, so to speak. Full of
stereotypical preconceptions---
'Frenchwomen!" and 'if it bleeds, it leads"..."A Hanging!".....

I suggest that this is P's way of saying that our known US history is
stereotypical, biased,
shallow, appeals to emotions, not truth, etc.

Whatever other associations Cherrycoke has, it would seem TRP lays him
out carefully
in this perspective.

The overarching narrator moves us closer to the patterns of historical reality.
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