M& D Group Read

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps the place to comment on that famous Card Table early on, page 5 , I think, with the Wan'dring Heart grain and its "illusion of depth". 

Pynchon wrote in one of his letters that everything is there on the surface of his texts and 
I always think of that.
Despite his buried allusions, the surface sings with his jokes, lyrical observations, overtly expressed themes--like this one about his own prose. 

And this reading I ask if it is a card table because decks of cards are patterned from the start? One after another, like ordained fate, yet " mysterious until revealed? 

That this is what the new world is too. Always is. 
The "illusion of depth" depth is just the next unknown card in the limited patterned reality? 

Similar conceptually but entirely different from his use of Tarot cards in GR?

He says for conversation starting. 



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