Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Rhetoric of Dispatches - italics?

When I began reading Dispatches I assumed the first italics section just functioned as a preface and thought nothing too special about it and continued reading. When I got to the second italics section I assumed that since our story teller is a journalist the story would be set up as one part what he encountered and one part the journalistic approach (in italics). Then I realized that wasn't right because the second italics part couldn't be in a newspaper/magazine. THEN I come across italics again in this way until almost 200 pages later.
What does this mean? Why does he use this?

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