BEg2 Chap 8 Summary Part 1

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sat Dec 11 10:00:13 UTC 2021


I am not sure about irony or parody but it goes without saying, err, 
that I did not mean to say that Pynchon endorses March's POV.

Am 11.12.2021 um 00:18 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> I overstated. I salute you for knowing and finding the Ruppert source.
>
> What I meant was just about any use he makes of
> well-sourced anything---from the Israeli microchip to other mysteries of
> 9/11--is usually wrapped in
>   irony, a parodic use, we have to understand. A poised ambiguity often and
> often essentially. This may be what Joseph means when he says P doesn't
> tell us what to believe; it may unite him and
> David M and me. ...That is, the mysteries in the fiction in which the
> sources are embedded.
>
>



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