GR translation: except that the man was never really alive

[alice wellintown]

In the postmodern critical haystack data days Jamf was employed as
bleed and noise to tout P's postmodern indeterminacy, his reader
trappings and mappings on to ambiguities multiplying. Though surely
paranoids, as proverbs for those thus inclined, from Odysseus, to
Hamlet to Alice in Wonderland to Dorothy in Oz, and all who have
feelings they may not be in Kansas or anyplace else on the map,
suspect that the real may be only a reel, film, a belief only a dream.
Difficult to translate....

> I take this as Slothrop writing off or entertaining the idea of Jamf as
> merely a figment of his imagination--an attractive alternative to the truth?
> Related to this (much) later mention of Jamf on p738?  Even though Jamf is
> ostensibly a physically real entity, paranoia is just as much about
> suspicion of the real as it is belief in the unreal.
>
> "'There never was a Dr. Jamf,' opines world-renowned analyst Mickey
> Wuxtry-Wuxtry--'Jamf was only a fiction'"