Pynchon's misdirection

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Just don't go bifercatin' on us now, ok?
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> --- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You might also want to check out this fine post,
> > from a knowledgeable and frequent contributor to
> > the p-list....
> > 
> >
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114275&sort=date
> 
> THAT guy ... I'd call him a bastard and/or
> son-of-a-bitch, but I have it on good word his
> parents, at least, were fine, upstanding folk
> (R.I.P.).  He owes me money, lost me my girlfriend,
> and has, over the past couple/three decades, ruined my
> life ...
>  
> > And I'll just add a quote myself, here, from Molly
> > Hite's 'Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas
> > Pynchon' (one of my favourite books on Pynchon):
> > 
> > "Like all questing heroes, Oedipa has traveled
> > through a wasteland, but her commitment to the
> > quest has prevented her from grasping the fact
> > central to the novel, that waste is precisely
> > what is most valuable...." (90-91)
> 
> ... A-AND he put all my books in storage. Thanks!