Deadfall

[Richard Fiero]

Thomas Pynchon is not James Joyce.  I don't believe that AtD needs to 
be decoded or interpreted or that there is any underlying 
scheme.  It's all there in the text and stands without support from 
Crowleyites, Hanged Men (which I used as a bookmark before even 
starting the thing) or Zetamaniacs.
The term "Deadfall" is used often in The Barbary Coast by Herbert 
Asbury.  I have a 1933 first edition but it's available at:
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbtbcidx.htm