Foreword
Perhaps it is my inability to grasp this foreword (or perhaps, I am just unsure what to take from this), or perhaps a comment made by Scott has confused me to an extent, however, is John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and actual person? If so, the foreword is much more comprehendible. The source of my confusion was, I believe, that Scott had commented that the author begins by providing the readers with a fake editor…? To perhaps summarizes… am I to take anything from the foreword besides the text being a concept of several, horrible acts written quite creatively, that will be studied by Freudian “wanna-bes” for quite sometime…
Matt
Matt
posted by M at 9:48 AM
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Well, this may be our first part of the game. Is John Ray a real person? Show of hands.
The editor's fake. This is an old trick of Kurt Vonnegut's, so I've seen it many, many times before. See, by including a fake forward from the fake editor, he's playing off of the memoirs and confessionals that are so popular in America. I can't really say what the exact purpose of playing off them is, but that's probably just because I'm tired.
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