Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Only if you start with the assumption that one word in a given text =
infinite number of signifiers.  If that's how it's defined, no problem. The
definition that was offered earlier, "the signifier, to
put it simply, is the word, and the signified is the thing or idea it
represents" seems to say something different. 

lorentzen-nicklaus
   you can only make sense of this "finite number of words" because there is
that 
  "never-ending chain of signifiers".