AtDTDA: 19 Nothing's been rigorously what you'd call 'real' lately [535/538]

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/11/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

>           "Got drafted by the navy," Kit said. "I think. Nothing's
>           been rigorously what you'd call 'real' lately. . . ."

Raises again I think as well the question of, what is even
diegetically real in the novel, much less bears any relation
whatsoever to "our" "own" "reality" (rigorous or otherwise)?  A
perennial problem in Those Pynchonian Texts, I know, but ...

Well, I can't help but think of those anatomical illustrations and
their concealing layers (scroll down) ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html