Pedestrian Gods
Same here, more or less
Pretty much, yes. Pynchon turns the filing cabinet into a maze and then hands you another form.
That is the tidy version, yes
That sounds right, though I would be a little careful with the word liability.
Sometimes the evidence is not a burden so much as a test of what kind of reading we can sustain.
Yes, and the novel is careful not to promise a final key.
Still, it is worth saying that some clues are more solid than others, which…
I agree, though I think the novel also wants us to notice how little can be checked directly.
It is not just uncertainty for its own…