GRGR(9) Pick-me-up

[Jeremy Osner]

On page 185 we find a marvelously complex passage:

...the girls confiding quite a lot to each other with side glances for
their escorts. This ought to be good for a bit of the, heh, heh, early
paranoia here, a sort of pick-me-up to help face what's sure to come
later in the day. But it isn't. Much too good a morning for that.

My reading of this is: Pynchon the writer of the story is speaking in an
aside, directly to the reader, saying, "this is the sort of situation
where we [i.e. the writer and the reader] would expect our characters
[mainly Slothrop] to get worried." Slothrop hasn't got a line on "what's
sure to come later in the day"; only we do. (Sure, ok, S. was a bit
worried thinking about Bloat back in the hotel room.)

Any quibbles?