Plisters are more Hofstadter here than postmodern, I'd say. Or is that just projection?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

"As one of my courses turned to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, 
students' questions about Californian politics motivated me to break 
with the traditional reading of Lot 49 as a postmodern novel, whose play 
with textual references precludes any interpretation distinguishing 
between "fiction" and "history." Instead, I developed an approach to 
teaching Lot 49 that situates the novel's interpretive difficulties 
within the historical and political terrain of its contemporary California."

Much better.