pynchon reference in delillo

[umberto rossi]

I found a remarkable passage in White Noise that reads like a 
rewriting of "The Secret Integration". In my edition (Penguin) it can 
be found at pp. 258-9, anyway it's in Ch. 34, and it's when Gladney 
examines the trash bag, emptying it in the garage and picking though 
the waste item by item. The thoughts of Jack read like a comment on 
Pynchon's story...

"I picked though them item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering 
why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and 
perhaps shameful secrets. (...) But why did I feel like a household 
spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal 
heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues to secret yearnings, 
humiliating flaws?"

WHich is the basic idea of Pynchon's SI.

umberto rossi
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