GRGR(28): Leaving the Zone

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> The end of the section, with Mossmoon and Marcus, seems to me like the
> end of the book if it were a traditional novel. "What?" asks RMN (and
> this can be read, I think, as the reader coming up for air, wondering
> what's going on); in the background we hear Michael Palin: "And now for
> something completely different..."


Sounds about right to me. Or you COULD say that, at this point in the
book, the component of the reader charged with pretending to believe that
some kind of a story is being told to him can safely doze off because from
here on it will be pure disembodied pynchonian brilliance.

			P.