Roadmaps

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Nice post from j. powers including this interesting thought:
<snip>
>... and I
>couldn't help also draw a paralell between the "unfolding" ...a word
>taken verbatim from the book that I picked up on as being an
>important(?) signifier... of the delicate network of the Trystero and
>the unfolding of awareness of influences larger (broader?) than
>free-market capitalism, Nazism,  science, Freudian ontology, et al in
>the workings of our own world..


Here we should further note that the word *explicate*, that bugbear of intro to lit classes, 
literally means--*to unfold*
so the parallel you're drawing between what happens w/in the book and what happens 
between reader and book is strengthened, IMO, by this lexical knot.  As well as the thought 
that this novel is a lot concerned w/ how to read a Pynchon (or any other?) fiction.

john m