MDDM World-as-text

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > Right, it's the Saussuran difference between
> > signifier and signified he's
> > referring to.
> 
> I don't see Pynchon's specific reference  to Saussure,
> but P does distinguish between names and the things
> they stand for. Text and the world aren't the same
> thing in Pynchon -- his narratives distinguish the two
> clearly enough -- although some deluded characters
> (narrators, etc.) seem to get the two mixed up,
> sometimes with tragic results.

I can't think of how this sentence from GR can be attributed to 
Saussure.  However, I think, if we are talking about GR, the text does
deal with something like this concept. 
I think the deluded characters (represented as the German sickness and
the german language and the science of language and the language of
science-- this is why P notes in his letter to TH that Leibniz was a
german christian) set name apart from named and not the other way round.
See GR.391, GR.366, GR.320-322).