Pynchon's endings

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

       Daniel Harper:
       Much of the pleasure of reading the book comes 
       not from trying to sort out the mystery, but rather
       of all the strange and wonderous things that happen
       along the way.

       Dave Monroe:
       I second that e-motion.  It's more the frustration
       that comes from trying to sort it out ...

       Daniel Harper:
       I've seen Pynchon's works described as "Puzzle
       books", but I see it slightly differently --
       the reader is thrust into the structure of the
       book much the same way the characters are ...
       
       Dave Monroe:
       Esp. in the case of The Crying of Lot 49 ...

Note how the author subjectively shoehorns your mind into
Oedipa's, moving the reader's "I" though passages that might 
as well be a nervous breakdown.