Not really Pynchon but starts with Lot 49...

[Mark Kohut]

For the first time, I opened THE NAME OF THE ROSE. In English,
1983 or 1984 pubbed.

I know one meme about it---one reason I never aggressively went to
read it, pace fans, refuting is allowed---is ECO's line that IT--All
Books?--are mead out of other books and he mixes historical
reality and lotsa historical 'imagination" in this mystery.

So, it begins with the story of a medieval manuscript, 14th Century,
discovered first in the 18th Century and now rediscovered---"third in
chronological order" sez the narrator---which narrator
then finds another manuscript that seems to be a kind of source and
the first one is no longer in the monastery library and is suspected
now to be a forgery......

THIS is a conceptual allusion to the Crying of Lot 49s internal work,
no?...Or is this just generic...
a whole historical meme about old manuscripts?....

I cannot be the only one who has asked about this hugely-read work,
right? yet I cannot easily find a
link on the interwebs.
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