AtD 146 lines (spoiled)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

One way or t'other, that is, in fact, what happens in the book.
Hell, one of the dead from V. gets ressurected towards the
end of AtD. There's collectible fraudulent postage stamps and
weird sex with hidden occult meanings, cross references
to the other novels up the wazzoo. And/Or+
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> --- Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't reading it this way (and I admit I'm tempted
> > to read it this way myself) have little if anything
> > to do with the text itself, and everything to do
> > with the expectations we bring to the text?
> 
> Yes and no.  Both/and ...
> 
> But I'd argue, Pynchon'd have to have at least some
> idea that line would be read that way, so ...
> 
> On the other hand, I'd also argue, intentions,
> shmintentions, all we have to work with is "the" text,
> and all its inetrtexts, and ... one is NEVER reading
> without expectations, reading is the confrontation of
> expectations by the text, the text by expectations ...
> 
> 
>  
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