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[Anville Azote]

On 12/6/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

The gas communication network read to me like a redux of the Grid we
saw in Byron the Bulb's adventure, with perhaps an echo of the
Trystero.  How far these echoes add up, I'm not sure yet.  How do you
tell apart a nod to TCL49 or an instance of Pynchon revisiting the
same themes and deciding to do it better this time?

> And why not name Tristero aloud if he wished it to play a part in the novel?

Oh, maybe a bit of "ritual reluctance", just to give a hint of people
"so obviously in on something". . . .  ;-)

-A. A.