p. 712

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon is so, so, so.................cleverly hard to ...................understand sometimes.

Obvious premise: every word matters (somehow) or he would not have used it/them.

So, "Cyprian Latewoeed's return to Vienna was accompanied either in or outside
of his head by the Adagio, etc........(whcih MB has nicely educated us--me, at least--on)

But my question is:

What means "either in or outside of his head"..?
Where else can C. hear it?.........
So, he is hearing it internally---and it isn't playing in the real world?
Or it IS playing in the real world..........................................

My first attempt to gloss is to suggest:.................Cyprian's mind is now one with the 
world of spying and surveillance.....................there's no difference......................

And, somehow to me it is like "masking open skies" previously written.......................
What is real and what is in the mind and mind's eye.....are now One.....................

Not true in most of History...

??????????????????????

Please comment.


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