col49 2 corso, kurtz, and oed

[cj hurtt]

unlike most "quest" stories, col49 doesnt have a real resolution. no heroic return, no defeat per se, just an ending. we just get the questiopns with no answers. well, unless we make up the answers.
dave monroe brought up the following:
 "Green's association of Pierce with Conrad's Kurtz
permits a more psychoanalytic reading: 'Pierce is
indeed a shdaow cast over much"--not to mention Mucho
...--"of Oedipa's life and over all the clues to
Tristero; but he is also, as Kurtz is to Marlow, an
alter ego to her, a shadow in the Jungian sense.'" (p.
15)

Green, Martin.  "The Crying of Lot 49: Pynchon's
   Heart of Darkness."  PN 8 (Feb. 1982): 30-8.

this got me thinking about a book called the club dumas by arturo perez-reverte. the novel is about a book hunter named corso who gets hired to authenticate a book that supoosedly tells one how to summon the devil.
anyway, the plot is full of intrigue and confusion and danger and all that fun stuff. 
as the book progresses we find out that perhaps our man corso has been led through all this cloak and dagger stuff rather than haven fallen into it. and like, kurtz, the man who has hired corso is a spectre over everything from start to finsish.
unlike heart of darkness or the club dumas , col49 never lifts the veil. we never do get to "see" anything. i'm not sure where i'm going with this, so i'll stop here for now. there is a seed of thought starting here though.
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