From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 18:26:07 BST
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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