Book Description

[Jeremy Rice]

Well, I'll hedge my bet that the description written by Pynchon is, indeed, 
legit.

Perhaps Pynchon has warmed toward his readership since The Simpsons (vocal) 
appearance.  As most of his personal life resides in a vacuum away from the 
public, I doubt that the inverse is true and that he is not aware of all of 
the interpretations and various lit crit writings on his fictional and essay 
works.  There will not be any full fourth wall collapse, but he has 
communicated to his reading public in the past, so I think there's precident 
for him giving a peek into the forthcoming book.

Perhaps he is giving a heads-up to those of us who enjoy reading not only 
his writings, but also enjoy reading about the historical backgrounds and 
contexts of said material.  I consider his works not just to contain the 
places and people within them, but their connections outside of the text to 
real and to imagined worlds.  The book description rings of things that are 
present in the written work (i.e. on the actual page), but is very tongue in 
cheek about the work being an encased entity.  The more historical context 
one has, the richer one's reading of Gravity's Rainbow.

My 2 cents,

Jeremy Rice

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