The epigraph in Shadow Ticket

[Mark Kohut]

Hicks McTaggart

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On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> reads:
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> "Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney...perhaps not."
>                               ---BELA LUGOSI
>                                in  *The Black Cat (1934*
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> pure Pynchon ambiguity; pure Pynchon laughing on the knife edge of such
> ambiguity.
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> Reminds of the epigraph of *Gravity's Rainbow and,*
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> time-changed a little, the overt plot 'mystery' in *The Crying of Lot
> 49...*
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