Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net

>Somebody, please tell me if I'm wrong.


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>That is, because of all the interrupting material, noting this passage
>---on page 542, that is to say, exactly in the middle of the novel and 
>spelling something out in a most specific way---well, with all that
>smoke and mirrors, it's so easy to get off track at this node in the Novel:

If you're looking for Tristero in this quote, I DO believe you're wrong. 
You've previosuly said that Tristero is hidden in plain sight all over AtD, 
but frankly, having read the novel thoroughly, I'm not sure I agree. There 
are inverted stamps, sure, but a single anarchist's use of inverted stamps 
does not a Tristero make. Neither does the covert gas communication network, 
or even the odd occurence of the name Gennaro. There might be a deliberate 
Echo (!) or two here to Lot 49, we can certainly agree on that, but the 
references to Pynchon's other novels are much more frequent and obvious, and 
I have a hard time believing that Pynchon would encrypt AtD so as to give 
Tristero a central yet hidden role - much less place it at the very center 
of the novel. You seem to have looked so hard for Tristero in this novel 
that you have found it - even hiding in a city name like Trieste, which 
apart from a slight similarity in spelling has nothing to do with the 
Tristero (the city isn't even mentioned in Lot 49). And why would Pynchon 
place the novel/story he has disparaged so often in the very center of AtD? 
And why not name Tristero aloud if he wished it to play a part in the novel? 
He certainly didn't have any qualms with this in Lot 49, and it doesn't make 
any sense that he should encrypt it into AtD.
Are the muted posthorns real or imagined in AtD? I think they're mostly 
imagined.

Best,

Tore

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