Pynchon commentary, like pizza and sex...

[Michael Bailey]

> c) and finally, the metaphor itself -- dance of the deaf - is a
> bricolage or detournement of the anarchist paradigm.
> Where Arrabal sees outbreaks of revolution as intrusions (protrusions?
>  epiphanies?) from another world,
> Oedipa's anarchist miracle involves people *unable* to sense a cue the
> normal way, responding to it anyway...
> equating anarchism with a disability...
>

or not...
perhaps the notion is that *all* of us are deaf to the music of the
anarchic world that is trying to come about, and it's a miracle when
we keep to the beat...