Pynchon's misdirection

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

So Dave reposts "Pynchon's Inferno" by Charles Hollander

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm

And I read it again, as if for the first time, and come across this:

His leading us from R. Varo to M.T. Varro is a typical example of 
Pynchon’s method for burying key information, which I term 
misdirection. We are given a real historical name to check out, 
Remedios Varo, and upon searching for it the name leads us to a 
cognate, Marcus Terentius Varro, who only happens to have written 
150 Menippean satires, which is Pynchon’s method of alerting us 
that he has chosen to use the form of the Menippean satire. This 
misdirection works by virtue of leading us from something in the text 
to something outside the text, from one name to a cognate of that
name, from a painter to a writer, from Varo to Varro to Menippean 
satire. We shall see more of Pynchon’s misdirection shortly