Simon says that Jacob Wrestling was "one of the forerunners of post-war literature," and that "other writers have gone far ahead of him on rather similar lines: James Joyce, for instance." I think I assumed Simon was referring to Finnegans Wake, which I had actually tried to read in middle school, but he can't have been if that was published in 1939.
Oh, and Simon has to have been born by World War I, because he remembers his uncles from when he was seven. So if they were killed sometime between 1914 and 1918 he has to be born before 1911, probably closer to 1907 or even earlier. Cassandra thinks he's under thirty, but if it's 1935 or before he could be 28 or so easily. Of course that would mean he was in a Wall Street office in 1929, which must have been interesting (the Cottons don't seem much affected by the Great Depression).
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Date: 2023-05-27 10:58 pm (UTC)Oh, and Simon has to have been born by World War I, because he remembers his uncles from when he was seven. So if they were killed sometime between 1914 and 1918 he has to be born before 1911, probably closer to 1907 or even earlier. Cassandra thinks he's under thirty, but if it's 1935 or before he could be 28 or so easily. Of course that would mean he was in a Wall Street office in 1929, which must have been interesting (the Cottons don't seem much affected by the Great Depression).