Maas o menos: Infinity, Oy/Yo, Club on Pita

[David Casseres]

[Eric Weinstein write]
>    Firstly, as Jeff Krafft reminds me, "Marty Popps pointed out
>about 20 years ago ("Perpetual Motions"), citing that line near the end of
>Lot 49 in which Oedipa thinks of Pierce and a "fraction of him that
>couldn't come out even," but "would carry forever beyond any decimal
>place she might name," that Pierce Inverarity is pi."
>
>PI!
>
>   And secondly, Oedipa's nickname, Oed, is of course OED---the
>Oxford English Dictionary; containing, in theory, all words
>extant in the language (although Puhewwwarrrrmate isn't there yet.) 
>
>    So Oed gives us a kind of totality of language, even as
>as PI's infinity, should in theory, be a kind of numerical 
>endlessness. 

I'll be damned.  It seems that a while back I posted some remark to the 
effect that Pynchon's names are often offhand jokes and need not be 
questioned too closely.  I think I had better retract that, rather humbly.

How about that Roger Mexico, then?  We talked about his first name, and 
the fact that Pynchon was living in Mexico, but is there more?

What can we find in Blicero besides blitz and zero (though that's already 
quite a lot to conjure with)?  What about Peter Sachsa?  Oh, the 
questions go on and on...

Cheers,
David