M & D Deep Duck, deeper into the Audience.

[Monte Davis]

Heikki > Cherrycoke an outsider surrounded (and at least temporarily
sheltered) ...

Mark > If he doesn't keep Them entertained, his storytelling is over.

Did I hear someone call for the queen of stories?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade

M&D demands in the opening pages that we go beyond "unreliable narrator" to
"multiply motivated narrator with something (here, boys) for everyone
(thanks, 'Brae) ." And as soon as we get our footing there, it starts
layering of "as told by/to" (and why?)

Fancy narratollogical footwork: a dance of 777 veils, a rout, a Mischianza
(p. 6).



On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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