Less Is More. Again

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I'd like to revisit this "less is more" topic that came up a few days back.
 It seems that most of the conversation took the side that TRP was writing on
the MORE side of this equation.

I rather think that he's writing on the LESS side. Afterall, I see Gravity's
Rainbow as a hologram (the whole suggested by a fragment), a condensation, a
skimming of the surface of a host of subjects. It's like a randomly ordered
encyclopedia, not the unaBRIDGED (rainbow) version. Read the book and you are
forced to look elsewhere for MORE information. Read the book and you beg to
plumb deeper (through however many toilet tunnels you wish to travel, among
other avenues). Read the book and you enter into discussions. You read
Weisenburger's Companion. You go to the library and you check out books on
IGFarben. You study rocket physics and chaos theory and fractals. You examine
films. You search for the author. You go on wild goose chases seeking the
meaning behind names and phrases and half-started, half-finished plots. You
dig and explore and discover things and topics that are only hinted at in the
book. Read Gravity's Rainbow and you have a haphazard index of a post war
world, about which you look elsewhere if  you want to know more. The book is
a glossary of thought. A tease. The book, in all its volume, suggests, it
does not explain, it hints, it does not complete. GR is a LESS, which
suggests the MORE.