Anonymous
10/18/2025, 9:13:42 AM
No.24809631
>>24804852
>"Zone" style fan service for
Anon, there's flotsam and jetsom of the other novels everywhere both explicitly and implicitly throughout the novel, in the form of names (Wheeler, eg) or in the form of jokes, suggestions, and whatever else. The Vlad the Impaler bit is rather specifically a nod at V. (as well as its author: V. Lad), for instance; Skeet's concluding missive is Mason and Dixon's concluding reminder that whatever Life's macro-annoyances, and/or paranoias, there are yet individuals we hopefully met along the way whose lives we touched, who when all's said and done believed we helped them out, and are therefore grateful to us, miss us, perhaps even consider us their 'pals forever,' etc., and that this aspect too, this having been there for others, even as a friend, is of not inconsiderable importance in one's passage through life-- too. In short, if you fail to read this book in the valedictory spirit that it obviously intends, then you're bound to miss a lot.
There's a reason Hicks is a cipher who consistently consults the Gumshoe's Manual, a person ever so slightly changed (for the better) once able to convince himself that the OA was 'the way for him,' despite reading about it again and again and never really getting it, --the way many of [us] read Pynchon's novels, in fact. Of course OA may stand for anything 'Eastern' from Kung Fu to Yoga classes, from Christianity to etc.
Ok, tl;dr
Though the book's beautifully written one will get almost nothing from it without having read at least a handful of his other novels. I thought it delightful. Apologies to
>>24804671
>"Zone" style fan service for
Anon, there's flotsam and jetsom of the other novels everywhere both explicitly and implicitly throughout the novel, in the form of names (Wheeler, eg) or in the form of jokes, suggestions, and whatever else. The Vlad the Impaler bit is rather specifically a nod at V. (as well as its author: V. Lad), for instance; Skeet's concluding missive is Mason and Dixon's concluding reminder that whatever Life's macro-annoyances, and/or paranoias, there are yet individuals we hopefully met along the way whose lives we touched, who when all's said and done believed we helped them out, and are therefore grateful to us, miss us, perhaps even consider us their 'pals forever,' etc., and that this aspect too, this having been there for others, even as a friend, is of not inconsiderable importance in one's passage through life-- too. In short, if you fail to read this book in the valedictory spirit that it obviously intends, then you're bound to miss a lot.
There's a reason Hicks is a cipher who consistently consults the Gumshoe's Manual, a person ever so slightly changed (for the better) once able to convince himself that the OA was 'the way for him,' despite reading about it again and again and never really getting it, --the way many of [us] read Pynchon's novels, in fact. Of course OA may stand for anything 'Eastern' from Kung Fu to Yoga classes, from Christianity to etc.
Ok, tl;dr
Though the book's beautifully written one will get almost nothing from it without having read at least a handful of his other novels. I thought it delightful. Apologies to
>>24804671