Editing Pynchon?

[Ray Easton]

Otto wrote:
> As long as nobody has explained this "huge complex structure" to me
> sufficiently (well, of course I've got my own ideas but I could be
> wrong) I see all parts & characters as "essential".
>
>   
So you take the apparent inability of anyone to explain this structure 
"sufficiently" as evidence that there is some such explanation?

Were someone to explain this structure "sufficiently," wouldn't that 
itself be evidence that all parts & characters are essential?  

On the other hand, if it's not a "huge complex structure," but rather  a 
"bloated incoherent mess," then no such explanation can ever be provided.

Ray