CoL49 - Zachary All Suit

[J K Van Nort]

The quote from Hollander:"Mixing lightweight allusions with more heavily weighted ones, this overt/covert, public, yet secret integration creates distinct levels of meaning, like the overside and underside of a tapestry or the two distinct patterns the eye must focus on in a Magic Eye print."
and...
"Pynchon sometimes uses seemingly casual names, like Peter Pinguid" "Then later in the text, Pynchon might frame the causal name or character in a context that allows it to be understood."He offers examples of this with Pierce Inverarity and Wendell "Mucho" Maas.

Just so my bad paraphrase doesn't negate his argument, which is that there are multiple ways to perceive the story. It reminds me of a literary criticism of Blake as a poet against empire, which he does with allusion and allegory.

In solidarity,
James

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