Pynchon and fascism

[Terrance]

> 
> Well, it's comforting to know that someone somewhere has already decided
> that Hamlet and the theatre ticket are different kinds of signification.
> At which point, detecting sarcasm, people who have mortgaged their homes
> to buy a ticket to see Homer Simpson as the Prince, it's the performance
> of a lifetime, pounce on me and give me a critical beating, thrash me
> within an inch of my miserable, heretical life. You're saying the
> theatre ticket is the same as Hamlet? This man needs to be taught a
> lesson, get a stiff wind over here pronto.

Would that wind be passing over those dog's doings (oops, I mean
signifiers)  on the carpet? Dogs, of course, don't signify on the
carpet. Not when they have been properly trained in lit-crit and where
to sit (typo?)/