How is Pynchon like Shakespeare (not sayin he is; just sayin' this)

[Mark Kohut]

The best readings of these puzzling poems [Shakespeare's Sonnets] remain those 
that keep themselves open to ambiguity and multiplicity. I especially cherish an 
essay by the critic William Empson (who did his first degree in mathematics) in 
which it is calculated that simply at the semantic level, Sonnet 94 – the dark 
and wounded “They that have power to hurt” – contains “4096 possible movements 
of thought, with other possibilities.


from a Financial Times review of whole book about them Sonnets and not the first 
and in which we learn another poet wrote a whole book about just one of the 
sonnets.......