grgr (21): "you used to know what these words mean" (p. 472)

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/4/00 8:48:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de writes:

<< 
  "pynchon's captain blicero imagines a lover, or rather an antilover, 
african 
  and black where his northern katje is blond, superior to the 'oven-game' 
they  
  play where katje seems trapped in it. 'perhaps', he muses, 'the black girl 
is a 
  genius of meta-solutions - knocking over the chessboard, shooting the 
referee' 
  (102). the metareader of  g r a v i t y ' s   r a i n b o w, overturner of 
  chessboards and shooters of referees, is called upon to be a 'genius of 
  metasolutions' by every second-person pronoun in the novel."
  >>
i'm sorry but what the fuck is a meta-reader? this is not meant as a jab at 
you or mchale, i honestly can't wrap my head around such a word.