Lying character

adam louis stephanides · 24 Jun 1998, 10:38 · from urth-v0015.mbox · original

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From: adam louis stephanides <astephan at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: (urth) Lying character
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:38:41
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In _Castle of Days_, in an essay orginally published in 1990, Wolfe
complains regarding careless readers: "I have had them tell me (for
example) that they were completely baffled when a scene they had read was
discribed [sic] differently, later in the story, by one of the characters
who took part in it; because I had not told them, 'This man's lying,' it
had never occurred to them that he might be." (340)  Does anybody have an
idea what he's referring to?

--Adam

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