M & D Deep Duck, deeper into the Audience.

[Joseph Tracy]

I think the appetite for story is too universal to classify as american. But I like your point about an adolescent oversimplification that is common to american's use of their history. To me the desire to get stories from Cherrycoke is the open honest need of the young to know more about their world.  The fact tat he starts his tale at the end of an imaginary grid line made real in a new country is as weird as all get out and yet an utterly plausible introduction to a very real event.
On Jan 9, 2015, at 8:10 AM, Mark Kohut 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.
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