se he discovers the facts but not the truth of Cass' life. He will come to find out more than he ever could have dreamed about Judge Irwin's life---and his own---but in Chapter 4 he is a novice investigator, an amateur historian. That is why he refers to himself in the third person. He sees himself in this chapter as a creature from the past, a being so naive and innocent and free of corruption that he might as well be another person entirely.
Long ago Jack Burden was a graduate student, working for his Ph.D. in American History. . . . This Jack Burden (of whom the present Jack Burden, Me, is a legal, biological, and perhaps even metaphysical continuator), lived in a slatternly apartment with two other graduate students. . . . (157).
It is as if the early Jack were so unaware of the darkness at the heart of life that the Jack of th
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