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[David Casseres]

Getting on with it, Chris asks

>     229.30 `incomprehensibly and perversely, in willful denial of God's
>     Disposition of Time and Space, preferring 365 and a Quarter'  Well why
>     not?  (AD)

Because God sez (you could look it up, I'm sure) that a year is a certain 
number of days.

>     233.22 `"Ahrahr AHR ahrahrahr," adds Lud, years later, in the Cudgel
>     and Throck'  Why is Lud adding to a description of his and Dixon's
>     first encounter when the description is a flashback not mentioned in
>     the previous or ensuing dialogue?  (AD)

Pynchon at his trix.  The encounter *was* mentioned in the dialogue at 
the Cudgel & Throck, but we missed it while reading the narrator's 
account of the same event.  And that Lud, natuerlich, had something else 
to say about it.  If you imagine the scene in the C&T as film, it's very 
natural, the characters are talking, then we cut away to the flashback, 
then cut back again as the conversation continues, but not where it left 
off -- because it *didn't* leave off.


Cheers,
David