In Sorrentino's story, the reader may also observe many instances in which the narrator makes decisions while the story is being told, which we may consider "performative utterances ", since the narrator spontaneously decides where characters will be or what they will wear while narrating: "I'll put her virgin flesh into a black linen suit, a single strand of pearls around her throat," or "I put the young man into 1958. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see w...

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