AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[Dave Monroe]

Well, pretty much anything ever written on, say, GR up
to and including jacket copy will give away that much,
and then some.  That "book description" for AD gives
away even more.  In neither case have I felt/do I feel
that I've been told all too much of anything.  My
point I guess was, on the one hand, it's what gets
done with such elements, and, on the other, puzzling
over why that that's the real work of reading. 
Pynchon in particular simply overwhelms the ability of
anyone to "spoil" (much less summarize, and then
there's explain ...) even the briefest of his books
(another interesting exercise: summarize Beckett;
"Beckett in his first book wrote about, wrote about,
uh, well ...").  Not to worry ...

--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >Just what would constitute a spoiler?
> 
> I think that depends on the sensitivity of an
> individual reader. For some it would be the
> disclosure of (one of) the main plotlines (e.g.
> an American lieutenant's erections seem to be
> related to the V-2 rocket), for others some
> background info (e.g. time and place, historical
> personages etc.)....

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