GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style

s~Z mcmullenm at vcss.k12.ca.us
Wed Jun 9 20:52:44 CDT 1999


> I agree to a point.  It has never occurred to me that this passage
> might be a description of Pointsman creeping about after discharged
> "foxes".  I've read it as a fantasy that Pynchon *assigns* to the
> reader, rather than to the dreamlife of Pointsman alone.

So what about the first sentence of the ensuing paragraph: 'Yet for all
his agonizing. . .' I read that to indicate that the prior two
paragraphs were descriptions of Pointsman's agonizing.



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