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[John Carvill]

> 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.
>

Yep. Plus, the fact that it's Pynchon's own voice that narrates that
extra info, makes an even stronger case for its inclusion in 'the
text'.