"He thinks he's hallucinating" m

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I'm not discounting the possibility. As I outlined in
my intial post, I do not exclude it- I just don't prefer it.
I like the notion that the text is open to multiple readings.
I think that's what the author is striving for. Despite that,
it seems to me, he's plotting against that grain, as it were.
The fog at the end might be a symbol of willful ignorance
on doc's part, part of the role he's playing. If Shasta is
speaking to him in the third person, and they are both
hip to that, than there is a reason for it.

Shasta is an actress, but doc is pretty savvy, as well. He
gets a boner, but he doesn't lose his head. Shasta, true
to the form of the genre P. has chosen, is not quite so
helpless as she seems.


-----Original Message-----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 3:40 pm
Subject: Re: "He thinks he's hallucinating"


I beg to differ, at least with respect to whom
> "Thinks he's hallucinating" is directed towards. To
> me, it's ambiguous. Why would she speak to
> doc that way, in the third person?

Why not? You've never done that? Never heard that before? It is quite
common.