interview questions

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 05 Jan 2011, 20:46 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:46:32 -0800
Subject: (urth) interview questions
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>Q: Yeah, but, maybe he just made shit up. That's what Wolfe
>>effectively did, after all.
>>A: True, but again, I think we must call a halt to the Hall of
>>Mirrors. _Wolfe_ has some reason for putting "A Story" in the middle
>>of 5HoC, and so he wants us to find reason in it.
>
> True, but that reason may not to provide "factual" information.

Agreed: but what kind of information _does_ he provide, and why?

("Pale Fire" comments deleted: I tried to read the book once and
simply couldn't penetrate it)

> And I
> could believe the main purposes of "'A Story'" are to be interesting in
> itself and to reveal the
> character of the replacement Marsch.

That is a good answer to why _Wolfe_ put it there. But why did
_"Marsch"_ write it?

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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