BtZ42 - The Book

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

I agree with your reading.

On 26.04.2016 19:09, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> Jumping to the end of the section - p. 47:
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> "Spectro is one of the original seven owners of The Book, and if you ask Mr. Pointsman what Book, you'll only get smirked at."
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> Weisenburger is quick to identify The Book as volume 2 of Pavlov's Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes. He adds that the secrecy of rotating the book between various owners has no particular purpose, calling it "a bit of melodrama from the narrator."
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> My gut reaction is, fuck off, Weisenburger! Is there any textual justification for Weisenburger's explanation later in the book? There's certainly none here. It seems way too prosaic and non-Pynchonian an interpretation. Have I missed something?
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> I read The Book as deliberately obscure - an unholy book of (perhaps)lab data, meticulously and secretively collected, and given a mystically ritual connotation by its rotation among the various personalities of the White Visitation.
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