MDMD(1)--Card Table

[Scott Eric Kaufman]

On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, John Pendergast wrote:

> "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. . ."

As I read this completely out of context (having finished M&D last week
and being unable to remember these particulars) I'm thinking that
Pynchon's knocking us, that we're the children gazing into "an illusion of
Depth" . . . but that's just me.

Scott Kaufman
skaufm1 at tiger.lsu.edu