ATDTDA (12): Whatcher missin, Red, 348-351 #1

[Paul Nightingale]

Kit, after all, (i) has a track record (162-163) and also refrains from
partying (318-319, although the text is reticent regarding the extent of his
antipathy for the social scene). The young man might be a stand-in of sorts:
although meeting Dally after Frank told her to look him up ("...you and Kit
are two of a kind", 317) would be a coincidence too far, maybe (in a novel
that delights in coincidence).

On Berressem: Pynchon's Poetics is one of the few attempts I've read to
offer a full-length non-realist reading (ie all the things that James Wood
probably hates). For the past year I've been reading on and off Pynchon and
History by Shawn Smith, which is excellent and certainly a good primer for
AtD.