<div dir="ltr">I just awoke from a Pynchon dream---of the text. I dreamed there<div>was a missing, therefore previously unread, chapter of Mason & Dixon</div><div>that was the secret to understanding it. </div><div><br></div><div>It was a list of the things one needed to know to understand it....I read</div><div>the list, fifteen or more items, of which the first was a picture of a/the rocket.</div><div>With the word peenemunde another item. Albert Rolls' new book was another</div><div>(see W.A.S.T.E. on Facebook).</div><div><br></div><div>It ended with the items Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. it was</div><div>a kind of scanned Table of Contents list. I can't remember other items. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>my dream self-analysis. I reread Chap 20 of M & D last evening, preparing a short post, </div><div>leaving my reading with the self-perception that the posted stuff on fathers-sons</div><div>by Smoke and Joseph were kinda new to me. I neglected to feel/remember many of the right thoughts,</div><div>I thought. Too personal, maybe (although I have had a wonderful felt connection to the words</div><div>on the youths; a connection which fed the major thrust of my post--about Pynchon and the creation of human character which</div><div>about all the reviewers loved--to be posted later.)</div><div><br></div><div>I read of Rolls' book cover yesterday. I, in this rereading, keep thinking of textual connections</div><div>to the rest of his work--although this novel may be 'the most different' AFTER Gravity's Rainbow, of</div><div>course. The ending of Lot 49 keeps reappearing as a mental trope to me, as posts indicate. </div><div><br></div><div>I think that secret chapter of M & D is just the wish fulfillment that there could be such with the</div><div>full felt awareness that his work is never finally finished being understood. As they say about the greats. </div><div>Another short post on that to come. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>