VLVL2 (1) warm-up: Dedication

[Jumbly Girl]

> 
> Are there novels out there in which the dedication has thematic
> significance to the work itself?

Of course there are. 

What can we say about this? 

1. Not much. 
2. Too much. 

It's the Pynchon List so I'll take door number 3 

and behind door number THREE! 

Three Little Pigs a chicken crossing the road and the regurgitated boy
who cried wolf.

Don DeLillo's _Underworld_ 
"To the memory of my mother and father"

To the WORK itself? 

Yes, VL is a novel about WORK. 
Is writing novels a job? 

VL was a long time coming. 
So, like you're the guy that wrote that rocket book that my english
professor said was like the second coming of Moby-Dick. So, like,
written anything since? 

LATER than usual. 

I see, been kinda doin the Sloth rip van winkle out here in sleepy old
redwood tree land. 

Don't all those saws and hammers just make you crazy?