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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Doug:
 
> Since Pynchon uses it to present this key bit of info about his  
> narrator, I wonder if we should consider the video part of the IV  
> text.  Or, does it remain separate, like  the dust jacket copy, not to  
> be considered as part of the novel's text.
 
I think the jacket copy and the video should be considered on the
same paratextual level: Ideally, they should be separate from the
text itself, but in reality, such a thing as "the text itself" is
an illusion. The text will always be presented to us in various
material contexts, and these contexts (like the video and the jacket
copy) function like a sort of pre-interpretations which inevitably 
tinge our experience of the text, bleed into it and subtly steer our 
approach to the text into certain grooves.
 

 
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