Mackin: > Pokler's reaction to Dora seems one > of total despair. Quite. Just a futile gesture of Alchemy. By the by, found this in the ODE under the definition for g l o s s: --an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase, "the chapter acts as a helpful g l o s s on Pynchon's general method". Anyone know the origin for this citation? Or indeed the Chapter?