CoL49 (6) Leery of What She Might Find

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, David Payne<dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is there really anyone who thinks that Oed was put on? I'll bet that all readers either believe that she uncovered the truth, or they believe that the reader is not supposed to know.

Trying to bat a little clean-up on the recent Lot 49 group read today,
I don't want to be the guy to declare an end to it or whatever because
(a) I didn't organize. coordinate and/or kick it off, (2) I took my
not-so-precious time (not to mention all y'all rather more valuable
commodity) getting anything "done" at all, and (III), these things
never REALLY end, of course, so ...

... but this is essentially the question I asked in my "final"
official post of the reading. and it's one one (or or more) could ask
of any given Pynchon novel, substituting, say, in re: say, V., instead
of the Tristero, u.s.w., et soforthiam.  Looks like it'll be The
Golden Fang this time around,  Is it better to know, and/or Know, than
not?  Let me know (and/or Know) ...

And while maybe Pynchon has us asking the wrong questions, well, he
sems to keep having us do so, and even if he's not worried about the
answers, well, you know how we do...

At any rate, me i'm not the Host of Hosts here, so I don't want to
call last call here (even if we all know we'll continue to get served
after ahours, regardless), but again, everybody, tahnks for
putting/keeping this together, thanks for participating,thanks for
having me ..

I will reserve the right, of course, to come back to those names, plus
to continue posting from the teaching anothology (for starters) ...