> From: Scott Badger <lupine at ncia.net> > > But Pynchon does the same in GR and M&D. Part of his "technique", you might > even say. Any thoughts about these absences as a literary device? > Substitute "silence" for "absence" and maybe you've got something going in a Wittgensteinian vein. In the absence/silence of Andrew Dinn, d.