MDDM ch 69 The Ghost in the text

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The problem (if it is  problem) with treating
the world-as-text, it seems to me, is dealing,
or not, as one's tolerance for insanity may be,
with the consequences of the act of reading.

I believe Pynchon is presenting this dilemma in
Ch. 69. Basically, I think, the problem arises
from the distinction one is forced to make
between- drawing the line- if you will, between
oneself, i.e., the reader, and, the text- or that 
which is read.

Summarizing her due to a time
constraint: the drawing of arbitrary distinctions
sets up the possiblity for "ghosts" i.e., those
potential signifiers whose links to reality have
been, by necessity, arbitrarily severed,

    "-so may the Book-keepers Page be haunted"

[672]

This relates to the way the Duck haunts the line:
A pynchonian inversion, of course, to hi-light the
the problem.

I believe a case can be made for a parallel circumstance
in the measurement problem encountered in quantum
mechanics, as it attempts to deal- equally arbitrarily-
with the inherent duality of reality on that scale.

more, time willing, later.