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

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From: "Anville Azote" <anville.azote at gmail.com>
> 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.
  

Right you are, A.A., just check out page 78.

Thank you,
Robin