required reading

[David Casseres]

Mark J. Perrone sez

>Regarding erroneous literary scholarship, I remember reading an article in
>which TRP's GR editor discussed an essay he read which showed how the seven
>squares that divide each chapter form the symbolic basis for the entire
>novel.  The editor said the theory really convincingly explained how all of
>GR's many tropes and themes come together with the seven squares.  Only
>problem was, the design department at Viking came up with the seven-square
>chapter divisions without Pynchon's knowledge. He didn't see them until the
>book was published.

Well hey, if it's in the text it's in the text, no?