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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/books/13masl.html

Highway 61 Revisited, huh? Okay, I will buy that as an analogy, Janet.

But this?


You must be talking about Morini, Janet. And it is because I do not understand Morini that I do not understand the “overall secret?” But this presupposes that you understand the “overall secret,” Janet, and I am not going to accept that on faith.

Yes, “the Fate section is more entertaining than plausible,” but we were due for some entertainment at that point, Janet.


Brad in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Is it one of the "Critics" or is it Amalfitano? She starts talking about him immediately after that proposition and he is, after all, an academic.

Sutpen, you are absolutely and clearly correct. Her sentence is misleading. She is obviously referring to Amalfitano, not one of the critics.

Thank you for clearing that mystery up--at least to the extent of helping me understand correctly to whom she refers.

This confused me, as weel, but thinking back - didn't the critics see the book hanging in Amalfitano's yard, in "The Part About the Critics?" Agreed that the clothesline book is much, much more central to the Amalfitano section, though.

For what it's worth, I'm 80 pages from the end of the book, and you'd have a hard time convincing me that there is an "overall secret" that is hinted at in one critic's story.

"The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter

Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after"

Bob Dylan, "Tombstone Blues", Highway 61 Revisited. I'm on board with an overall Highway 61 / 2666 comparison.