afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Carvill, John]

<< I know I'm travelling over well-trod ground here, but if The Crying of
Lot 49 is trying to tell us anything -- and it is -- >>

Is it? Can you be sure?

<< isn't it that
people need to create elaborate constructs to explain the messy,
complicated reality we live in, but that we can't get outside them to
discover whether they're true?  >>

Right. But then once you're *aware* of awareness of your tendency to create elaborate constructs, what happens next?