If only she'd looked ...

[Dave Monroe]

"If only she'd looked." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 179)

Still can't help but think, we're discussing a novel
ostensibly in the line of a generically seminal text
which featured not only a postal theme, but, in
particular, a quest as well, the object of which was
hidden in plain sight all along ...

http://www.bartleby.com/310/3/3.html

And thanks, Doug, for posting that Edmund White
article, recall that Alain Robbe-Grillet's first
novel, The Erasers (Les gommes), was not only perhaps
the leading edge of the anti-detective (and,
therefore, nigh unto anti-"Western"-epistemological)
novel, not only begins with an epigraph from
Sophocles' Oedipos Tyrranos, but also features as its
(anti-)"clue" an Oedipe brand eraser (worn down to
reading only "di") ...

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