BE: as wonky as it gets

[John Bailey]

It's a carefully plotted book, in my opinion, at least given that it's Pynchon.

P316, for example, easy to miss given what the reader is going to be
concentrating on, includes "Vyrva peels away to grab a bus across
town" - what a pointless thing to mention, right? But of course when
you re-read, as Nabokov always demands, you know why that detail's in
there. Or maybe that's just the paranoia of middle age, which is where
we're at by then.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Say maybe it isn't a co-incidence? Bond disappears from the tumult of
> pop refs. until ch.37, when he's mentioned by his code designation,
> 007. Prior to that, the overriding concern of the narrative is a back
> doors into DeepArcher (or systems in general), up to and including
> Vyrva herself, who provides Ice literal & figurative rear access to.
> Count back door refs in ch.33 and let me know what you come up with.
> Or maybe we should be careful to keep it subtext-free for the moment?
> B/c otherwise I'm liable to stay up running anagrams of DeepArcher:
> "Dear Abbey, I have this friend with a big problem..."
>
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