AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

[David Morris]

On 1/25/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> ---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.
>

Yes.  Thanks for the correction.  I'm ot keeping track of all the bit
players as well as I should.