glossolalia.

[jill]

Or is it just the OED's editorial staff's way of clarifying to a learner,
what the definition means, in usage. The use here would be clear then
because most readers of the OED would also find it desirable to find
Pynchon's general method, since he himself does not tell us, we must seek
it in things like chapters. Nonetheless it does make one wonder: is there
just one chapter of something out there that could possibly be a gloss on
Pynchon's general method?

hmmmmm. I bet if you just asked the people at the OED they'd tell you.

-jill

Ralph Blunsom wrote:
> 
> 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?