Intro to SL: fact or fiction?

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

"We" really should try for some sort of consistency in these
exigetical exercises, No? For the devil of me, I can't seem to
to figure out why in one case of forewording Pynchon is being
literal and in another fictitious, but then, I'm not a member of
the inner party, either.

Which, I suppose, puts me in about the same category of
indecisiveness as Oedipa with her four symmetrical choices:
Trystero, Hoax, Trystero + Hoax, or, "Just" America. 

Yogi didn't say anything about a double fork, did he?

Maybe Pynchon likes these quadraphrenic perspectives- thinks
they represent some sort underlying key to understanding the
workings of the mind? They remind me of a movie they showed
us in high school physics about the propagation of electro-
mechanical waves, like two snakes- one snaking up and down the
other side to side, in perfect sync- coming right at us, and
representing the whole wave front.

In the case of  _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ the four symmetrical 
properties might be the +/- aspects of two concepts "self" and 
"soul" snaking in an orthogonal fashion.

At the very end of M&D there is another invitation to the 
anagogical, with  "And you too"  representing a positve 
summation, of sorts, of the two orthogonals, while the simple
and literal "We'll go there" being analogous to "Just" America 
for Oedipa- i.e., a seeming negation of any hope for transcendent
meaning.

respectfully