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

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

What's interesting here---and if you really want to find ground-zero 
paranoic reaction to "The Crying of Lot 49", then I'm your man---is 
that there is real attention and focus on philatalic concerns in 
"Against the Day". Yeah, the number of citations is small, but the
placement's interesting. And Tuva appears to be a world center of  
Fraudulent/Counterfit/"Cinderella" postage. So, I suspect that there 
are hidden Magical meanings on pages1080-1081 of"Against the 
Day", just as there are on page 152 of "The Crying of Lot 49".

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From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> 
> > 
> > The only detail in Feynman's Tuva saga which
> > correlates with anything
> > Pynchonian is the postage stamps. 
> 
> 
> Nothing but postage stamps, eh?  And we know how
> unimportant they are in the Pynchon oeuvre.
> 
> ;)
> 
> 
> Seriously, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to dismiss a
> connection having to do with postage stamps, no matter
> where it ultimately may lead or not. 
> 
> At the risk of starting an argument, I don't quite
> understand the need to pooh-pooh so overwhelmingly
> Robin's rather gentle suggestions of ideas that are
> pretty fun to think about in this pynchonoid Aether
> currently flowing through the universe.  Do we really
> need lectures about rigorous scientific thinking and
> the dangers of funny ideas -- I mean, even if Pynchon
> has left those out of this book, does that mean
> readers have to automatically provide them for each
> other? Are the hard-headed scientists among us so
> threatened by fringe science?  I suggest that
> Pynchon's not, he seems to love it, has fun with for
> several hundred pages and over the course of many
> years, it appears, looking only at Against the Day,
> not to mention the rest.
> 
> 
> 
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