V-2nd, 3

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey writes:

Trying to get it straight.  Honestly, I never have.  Especially the
Stencil chapters.  I read it with great enjoyment and it awakens
thoughts in me anyway, but if you allow me the luxury of pretending to
care about what is actually on the pages...


And i say the same, nonetheless, the same, the exact same
.......I've never had them
cohere and after Adams I might see better how they are the 'multiplicity'
of history but that 's too genral for me.............

so, I'll make one ob and ask one question and yu'all tell no lies...........

Ob: Spying is alluded to among one of the impersonations. Spying is
pervasive in Pynchon's work....and, it is emblematic of betrayal, not
suprising and accurately.............

SO, how does it apply to the impersonations? 

And, okay, that's two questions but they are related: is P parodying
Stencil in his search---or sorta working out a comic version of searching
thru history ala Adams?