Joseph Aisenberg : I think I can answer some of this...While the servants
may have been speculating that Ada and van had the same father, it seems
doubtful that Blanche had any idea of the extent of the baby switching.
It's definitely debatable, but I don't think Ada's mention of Blanche's
gossip creates any paradox. Before the album there was simply no
proof[...] there is a suggestion in one of Ada's editorial scribblings that it's
not quite right for Van to allow himself to narrate events that he could not
know[...] Oneiric, I think she calls them. One little thing that's always
niggled at me comes at the end of chapter five when Van has Marina watch the two
children ascending stairs[...] she has a fleeting moment of worry
[...] Which she apparently says outloud. How does Van know
this? The whole scene in the attic, and the stylized way the
children respond to their finds, reek of self myth-making on
Van's part. Whatever happened in the attic, it seems hard not to think it
couldn't have really happened anything like the way Van narrates it.
JM: Joseph Aisenberg raises many
important points to the "attic" query. His observations concerning the
narrator's voice, Van's writings of "Ada, or Ardor", open the way to
undertand a little more of what has been puzzling me. We cannot be certain
that Ada's editorial scribbling is really Ada's, but they do represent an
important critical insertion advising us that Van's writing is mainly
"oneiric", "self myth-making".
And I agree...this is not a matter of "paradox"
but of "something debatable and unproved".
As J.A indicated with precision, Marina's moment
of misgiving voiced out-loud, or Ada's complicated quips - -
reproduced almost as a recorded rendering on the "Bear-foot" in
an exchange that implies some kind of "feet" (certainly not
Oedipous'), but which employs similar dynamics as
those recently described about Jane Austen's introductions - -
are events about which Van cannot know anything first-hand.
Where Van places himself in the narrative adds to the equivocal atemporals aspects that
impedes the reader's "identification with" any of the
"characters."
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