WHO DID WHAT TO WHOM AND IF SO, WHY? (If at all)

[Richard Fiero]

WHO DID WHAT TO WHOM AND IF SO, WHY? (If at all)
by John Brantley
http://www.trinity.edu/org/tricksters/TrixWay/current/Vol%205/part2/John_Brantley_Pynchon.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/yb7p5ez
"Each of Thomas Pynchon's first three novels is steeped, one way or 
another in the architecture and purpose of detective 
fiction.  Although true, it is a bit of a dodge . . .
. . .In the end, the reader learns what Slothrop was told, 'There is 
a plot, it's just not the one you thought.' "