AtD: all those "quoted words" and phrases in early Chums chapters

[Mark Kohut]

Emphasized throughout by Pynchon, as the narrator/writer
of the Chums books uses them constantly. A parody of some
postmodern tropes, in which "truth", "reality" is often bracketed off
in similar ways---indicating their tentativeness, their interpretability in
the
writer's eyes?

A way of countersuggesting the real, that is, if this is parodic then *THERE
IS*
that quoted reality?