afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Mark Kohut]

I am sure we can have great dialogue on what
'everything on the surface' means re Pynchon.

In one sense, I agree----it's all there in the words, those
lyrical, subtle words chosen with no sloppiness on his part. I have
had to laugh at the reviewers who, mostly with Against the Day, spoke of
a certain "sloppiness" in the writing, in his metaphors. (In all cases---couple-three I checked out, THEY were wrong about a sloppy metaphor. THEY
had just not worked it out properly.

Yet, I do think, like the impasto of time/the seasons he writes 
of early in GR, he layers the words with resonant meanings----how
else do we begin to get V., say, for starters, and that he points
to the unnameable sometimes with feelingful value. 

I think Ray must be right about Mathematics in AtD, but I still want to
ask, what else does the mathematics (in ATD) mean?  For example, is he (metaphorically) for or against imaginary numbers?. I think it is a real
question. Maybe you do not?