GRGR(28): Leaving the Zone

[Jeremy Osner]

Paul Mackin wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, that's a nice way of putting it -- I think on my last time through, I got
so caught up in the Story of Slothrop, I didn't really understand this and I
couldn't dig The Counterforce because I was too busy looking for Story.

--
In that time, thousands and thousands of people,
who for the most part did hard work and lived a
hard life, in their free time would sit stooped
over quadrants and crosses made of letters, whose
holes they would fill in according to certain
rules.

The Glass Bead Game
http://www.readin.com/books/glasperlen