Re: MD The narrator

From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 19:49:59 BST

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    Matt
    in what way is Lila supporting ahistoricality?

    regards
    DM
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    From: "MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT" <mpkundert@students.wisc.edu>
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    > Sam,
    >
    > Sam said:
    > I think this is right, but it provokes me to ask: what would the narrator
    have made of the arguments in Lila? I wonder if we might be able to generate
    a few ideas.
    >
    > Matt:
    > Well, as I think the narrator is a pragmatist, I should think he'd think
    of Lila the way I do ;-)
    >
    > Specifically, though, I think it would be a wonderful exercise to pick out
    pieces of ZMM where the narrator says something that seems to be in tension
    with either other places of ZMM or Lila. That, in fact, is a great idea.
    >
    > The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is the part where the
    narrator just finishes some long part of Phaedrus' story, I think right
    before he talks about gumption, and says something about how keeping on in
    metaphysics as Phaedrus does would useless in and of itself. Its only when
    we bring it back down to the concrete that points are scored.
    >
    > Oh, and there's that whole ghost story he tells in the beginning of ZMM.
    That kinda' contradicts, in a very major way, the whole idea of
    ahistoricality. That is a fairly insoluable tension between the narrator of
    ZMM and Phaedrus of Lila.
    >
    > Matt
    >
    >
    >
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