What is Thomas Pynchon telling us?

[Monte Davis]

Jill sez:
 
> I think pynchon would tell us:
> history proceeds not causally with certain predictabilities, 
> but all moments' relationship to any other moment is meant. 
> things are analogous.. or.. syncretic and in that way form a 
> poetic structure. 

Which is, I'll argue, much closer to how memories are in fact stored than
the shared representation of public chronologies.

Make that "stored," since they're recreated on the fly from nothing more or
less than all those relationships.