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

[David Morris]

On 12/6/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Are the muted posthorns real or imagined in AtD? I think they're mostly imagined.

A whole lot gets imagined in interpreting what Pynchon may have
encoded into his work.  That's part of what makes paranoia paranoia.
For instance, "Now, single up all lines!" was initially thought to
mean "gather together all lines" as in all Pynchon's previous themes
in previous novels.  Some may still hold that to be Pynchon's hidden
meaning (count on it).  But AtD's 1st line means nothing of the sort,
no matter how much we'd like it to be.  So much for the great import
of the first line of all of Pynchon's novels, unless the great import
means simply "let's take off."

David Morris