AtD 1066, 1076: A surprising survival (spoilers)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

On page 1066 of AtD I ran across an old acquaintance whom I believed to be 
long dead, but whom Pynchon has resurrected for us old fans, including a 
wonderful bit of sly self-critique. That Tom LeClair also failed to notice 
this reappearance in his review (where he said that he only recognized 
Bodine from previous novels) strengthens my impression that he hasn't read 
at least some of Pynchon's novels in a very long time, and that he therefore 
fails to see how Pynchon indeed singles up all lines in AtD.

I've already commented on his failing to recognize the Traverses, and this 
failure becomes even more strange when you consider that some of the 
characters in AtD practically end up in Vineland, in a small city among 
redwoods, "up in the last corner of the U.S. map," where Jesse Traverse 
hands in a school essay to his teacher Mr. Becker (his future 
father-in-law?). Clearly, Tom LeClair doesn't know his Pynchon inside-out, 
as someone stated.

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