OT: 1st reading of GR

[albert pulido]

On the topic of reading GR, I'm also on my first reading and encountered on 
page 411 a parenthesis that doesn't seem to get closed. I *think* I've seen 
something like this before in the text. Is a parenthesis in this case a 
device Pynchon uses to segue, not feeling the need to close them (it's 5 
pages later and the plot has seemed to move on)-- only using them as 
transition?
If so, that's pretty cool. Has anyone seen something like this from another 
author? Or does the ( eventualy get closed and I haven't gotten there yet?

Albert


>From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
>To: brook7 at earthlink.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: OT: 1st reading of GR
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:43:46 +0000
>
>
>Your question is a good one.  One would think that Slothrop would begin to 
>correlate his sexual liasons with the bombed locations he subsequently 
>inspects.  One might even suspect that his assignment to that job was a 
>part of "Their" plans for his future deployment.  But in GR nothing is ever 
>clear-cut.  As you continue reading it becomes unclear whether the spots 
>marked on the map are real encounters or possible just imagined ones.  
>Nevertheless they seem to fortell future bombings.
>
>I suggest you follow one of the GRGR's (group reads) in the WASTE archives. 
>  One started in August 1999 and continued through September 2000.  An 
>earlier one started a couple years earlier, but I can't locate it at the 
>moment.
>
>Ghetta
>
>
>>From: "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at earthlink.net>>
>>After several renewals I finally returned my borrowed  copy of Vineland 
>>and went out and bought a copy of GR. I have just started the 3rd section 
>>and have a  fundamental plot question mixed in with a few hundred 
>>structural and interpretive questions. I have never encountered a text 
>>this dense with historic information, spiritual esoterica, science etc. My 
>>question is this.  In the first 2 sections has Slothrop himself correlated 
>>theV-2 strikes with his sexual encounters? This seems, almost impossibly, 
>>since his 1st job was to inspect strike sites, to be the case? Is this 
>>something everyone he works with knows but him , or am I missing something 
>>that indicates he shares this basic knowledge?
>
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