MDMD(1)--Card Table

[davemarc]

> From: John Pendergast <jpender at saturn.vcu.edu>
> 
> Much has been said about the masterful opening of the book and its
> deliberate echo of GR. Also, many of us seem to isolate specific passage
> and to use them as metaphoric "roadmaps" to Pynchon's narrative.As far
> as I know, however, no one has mentioned the following passage which
> could serve as a possible metaphor for the entire book:
> 
> "mostly Pine and Cherry about, nor much Mahogany, excepting a sinister
> and wonderful Card Table which exhibits the cheaper Wave-like Grain
> known in the Trade as Wand'ring Heart, causing an illusion of Depth into
> which for years children have gaz'd as into the illustrated Pages of
> Books. . ."
> 
[snip]

> Anyone else see echos of this passage in the book?
> 
Most assuredly:  there are several interiors that are larger than their
exteriors.

davemarc