The end

[ethan at magicnet.net]

JM writes-
>The fragmentation that takes place over the last hundred
>pages or so of _GR_ has (over the years) been one of the
>most perplexing parts of "the book."  Aside from fragments
>here and there that I much enjoyed, like "Byron the Bulb" for
>instance, this was a stretch of the novel more to be endured
>than to be enjoyed.

I particularly enjoyed this closing section of the novel (although I agree
that it is difficult to read) because it is an example of a style that I
think is difficult to find in many mediums, especially film, where
experimentation I think is at a minimum.  This style (for lack of a better
word) is characterized by art that comments, or is about itself.  In other
words, because the character's world (Slothrop's) is falling apart, so does
the novel.  I think film, an obviously fake version of reality, desperately
needs directors who comment on their own work or medium within the medium.
                                                              Ethan