Cause & Effect

[Steve Maas]

Still reading _Gould’s Book of Fish_ (a book to be nibbled, not swallowed 
hook line and sinker).  A passage in the book made me think of "You will 
want cause and effect.  All right." (GR 663), with the long explanation of 
Thanatz’s adventures leading to the Schwarzkommando.  Flanagan’s narrator 
Gould says about a character who has framed him (Gould) "If I were to 
contrive some motivation for what Jorgen Jorgensen did--his jealousy of a 
supposed influence with the Commandant, say, or his clerk’s desire for 
obvious cause and effect--this would be merely literature, rather than life, 
where there is no explanation or motivation for people’s actions."

I'm beginning to think I'm bound and determined to find relationships 
between this book and Pynchon's work, justified or not.

Steve Maas

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