Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin Spoiler AtD 1045

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Thanks for that elaborate, nuanced and well-reasoned reply! I couldn't agree 
more with the following thoughts from your post:

>I guess one of the things I'm trying to say is that Pynchon most likely is 
>an adept, if only as a true amature who's keen on old Jacobian texts
>and matrices, and that the elements of the occult are in his books for a 
>reason. The notion that what is being called down at the estate sale
>is the apocalypse strikes me as one of a number of possible readings
>to be gleaned from "The Crying of Lot 49". 1966 was a time when
>Yoyodyne was working on the delivery system for the apocalypse,
>and the end of all things just might have been one of the booby prizes to 
>be unearthed from Pierce Inverarity's estate.

An apocalyptic reading of Lot 49 is not only "one of a number of possible 
readings" of that book, it is one of the most valid possible readings of it. 
The only thing I pointed out in my post was that the singling out of 49 
words in a longer paragraph seems to be a less convincing way of gleaning an 
apocalyptic reading than some of the many other options in the book. The 
singling out of those 49 words does seem to project a world, but that 
particular world (the imminent apocalypse) doesn't have to be projected: It 
is there to be discovered in so many more, less 'creative' ways.

Best,

Tore

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