M & D Deep Duck letters

[Elisabeth Romberg]

Letters of Introduction. 

To each other, obviously, but also to us, the reader? 
The characters (and their subsequent relationship) are set up, presented through these letters, ...but also the "deception" of words. How words can be deceiving.

Dixon being his Cheeky Self (pints at the pub), and Mason exasperated. 
But both humble in their own ways.

And then the North/South banter kicks off proper in chapter 3. (Mason is suddenly the "Old London Hand» (p. 14) to Dixons' «Country Soul» (p. 13) How long had Mason lived in London? He wasn’t from London, was he? Somewhere round London, right?

Then, on p. 15, Mason makes fun of Dixons’ Northern accent…. and we’re off! Proper great like.

Also the letters are the characters presenting themselves in their own words aren’t they (but of course they’re not, really), their voices coming through?


> 10. jan. 2015 kl. 14.01 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> 
> Before I move onto Chapter 3---although I have more Chap 1 research residue..
> 
> We've got to talk--respond to maybe?--my post on Chap 2. Those
> not-even-introduced
> letters. Why are they there? What show?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

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