AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

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---David Morris:

---> What's interesting about this scene is that the Chums 
---> accidentally interrupt Merle photographing his daughter in 
---> the nude, kiddie porn.... and yet another example of pynchon 
---> giving Lolita treatment to his own nymphets.  One has to wonder...

---Execpt that as we learn on p. 26, the photographee is not Dahlia, but
---Chevrolette McAdoo. Dahlia, aged four or five, shows up on the next page.

---Another example of something, to be sure. One has to wonder.


That "something" is deliberate misdirection, and 
"Against the Day" is full of that particular quality.