AtDTDA: (8) 231-232 The Fool

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           Tore:
           The card, as Pynchon reminds us in GR, has 
           "no agreed assignment in the deck" (GR, 724) - 
           so perhaps it is, in 
           some sense, a wild card?

You nailed it, 
Joker numero "0".

The scene itself must be read as a card: what is to come. 
(GR, same page as above, 738 in my copy)