Pynchon's endings

[Dave Monroe]

--- Daniel Harper <daniel_harper at earthlink.net> wrote:
 
> I'm referring to something a bit different. While
> the "meaning" of Lot 49 is buried in the meaning
> of Trystero, etc., I think it's entirely possible
> to read the novel as a series of set pieces without
> any real overall meaning. 
> And the book is meaningful and wonderful even on
> those terms.
> 
> Two name two examples from that novel, the two
> that struck me as particularly great even upon a
> first, Jack-Daniels-laden read:

3.) The Courier's Tragedy ...

Meanwhile, on "the meaning of Trystero," see ...

Petillon, Pierre-Yves.  "A Re-cognition of Her
   Errand into the Wilderness."  New Essays on
   The Crying of Lot 49.  Ed. Patrick O'Donnell.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1991.  127-70

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