"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> That's fine, but you're mixing up the hypothetical and the actual, the
> objective and the subjective, in a way that can't really be justified by the
> text itself. 

This is the fork in the road we must take. 

It's a topic we have debated here for years. 
I've flipped my ace in the hole and she is a Queen--Rosenblatt. 



The debate is over whether Pynchon intended an allusion, or
> whether he didn't. You think he did; I think he didn't. It's not resolvable.

Not unless you want to mud wrestle for it.