M & D Deep Duck Read. That wonderful Card Table

[Mark Kohut]

p. 6. Then to the almost-famous Card Table. Discuss its
self-referential metaphoric discription, if it is? ..make sure you
incorporate  'sinister'...and "illusion of Depth" as well as Wand'ring
Heart and all those 'sliding Mortises'. ...

[ if I remember aright, in a letter when young to an earnest scholar
trying to figure out Pynchon's meanings re entropy, etc. he said, it
[meaning] was all there on the surface. In Slow Learner he wrote of
using that concept [entropy] but when he learned more about it, he
couldn't understand it anymore. I have interpreted his 'on the
surface' remark as a way to say, read the text, it's all there, follow
the language, think through the metaphors and you will 'get' my books.

Yet, there's more, there's more, always more there.

On the surface, just like any great writer who is not a novelist of
ideas, yet the 'sliding Mortises' line shows his layering on.layering
in, of meanings. Lasagna novels in lyrical poetry form.
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