Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> My copy of V. has a finite number of words and pages. How does that
> translate into "a never-ending chain
> of signifiers"? Unless maybe this author is talking about interpretations of
> the words Pynchon writes, a critic spinning off new signifiers from the text
> that Pynchon provides.
> 
> " However, the story, whose main
> aim is the quest for the lady V., finally dissolves in a never-ending chain
> of signifiers that always escapes an ultimate categorical meaning."
> http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/collado24.htm


I think you hit what could be the head of the tale and the
nail on the tail and the head Doug, that is, the chain is a
never ending always escaping "meaning." It's a very good
essay once you get past this silliness and the paradigm
shifting rigidities of his reading of the history of
philosophy and logic.