The epigraph in Shadow Ticket

[Mark Kohut]

reads:

"Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney...perhaps not."
                              ---BELA LUGOSI
                               in  *The Black Cat (1934*

pure Pynchon ambiguity; pure Pynchon laughing on the knife edge of such
ambiguity.

Reminds of the epigraph of *Gravity's Rainbow and,*

time-changed a little, the overt plot 'mystery' in *The Crying of Lot 49...*