MDMD(Part1) Who is Rebekah Mason?

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Paul Mackin writes:
> Some of  the passages about Rebekah seem to be Pynchon at his
> most stonedness. We may never make much literal sense of them.

I'm not so sure. For example, looking back at the opening I recalled
my utter puzzlement when I first read the hanged man analogy employed
by the Revd and yet more puzzlement when I realized it is actually
perfectly clear how it is to be read. Ditto the Learned Dog scene
where I failed to see that the LED answers his own riddle first (and
second) time round. As Henry Kingman said sometimes you get it and
then you lose it again. I suspect more of it is there than meets the
unrehearsed eye.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five