"exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"

[Chris Broderick]

Robin sez:

"The Crying of Lot 49" initially seemed a transparent
tale that headed 
south and then bailed on the plot, but now seems the
most perfectly 
cryptical of all of his tales.

So I say:

Yup.  It's all balanced on that signifier that doesn't
signify, the Tristero (whose muted post-horn is my
only tattoo, on my left arm.  The artist who did it
was a bit disappointed that it was so simple.  I think
it cost 30 bucks.)  Oedipa is, brilliantly IMHO,
stripped of primal plots, and left with signifiers
that don't signify and an abscence that is telegraphed
by the novel's teasing last line.  Pynchon is right in
complaining that it's a story based less on character
than on some structural approach, but like the best
experiments of Georges Perec, it is an excersize in
style that becomes, in its telling, a humane tale.

-Chris

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