O'Donnell, Latent Destinies

[Dave Monroe]

Just got my copy of Patrick O'Donnell, Latent Destinies: Cultural
Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000),
which Doug kindly brought to our attention here recently.   Handy
hyperlink:

http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi

O'Donnell is the guy what edited that very nice anthology, New Essays on
the Crying of Lot 49, for Cambridge UP a while back, and, of course,
there's a little something on TCOL49 (not to mention Libra, Empire of
the Senseless, JFK, Reservoir Dogs, Underworld, and so forth) in LD as
well.  Won't excerpt it here, seeing as we're ostensibly on V., but a
nifty little discussion of that "mattress/matrix" (which O'D rounds out
with "mat(t)ter") apres Jean-Joseph Goux (Symbolic Economies).  The only
problem is, my copy abruptly jumps back to p. 133 after p. 164 (i.e., to
the penultimate chapter in the midst of the endnotes to the first
chapter).  Wouldn't be so bad, except that it ONLY gets so far as p. 164
again.  Have contacted Duke UP ...