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through the journal of Fleetwood Vibe, 13846.21. Here, as Louis Menand observes, Elaborately imagined charactersmaypop up and disappear after a few pages.See Do the Math,n.p.22. The Pynchon Wiki makes the connection between Ray Ipsow and the Latinre ipso, the thing itself.See Page 29,http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_26-56#Page_29 (accessed September 1, 2009).23. The Chums portion of the narrative itself differs in texture from the otherrelatively majorperspectives, in that it is more characterized by passages ofobjective third person, much less frequently inhabiting the internal lives of itsprincipal actors.24. See Menand, Do the Math,n.p.25. Laura Miller, Fall of the House of Pynchon,n.p.26. See Menand, Do the Math,n.p.27. Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49, 84. McHales essay in this volume similarly notesthe conspicuously anticlimactic terminations of Against the Days gunfighter episodes,reading this gesture as a revisionist handling of the dime-novel western.Without disputing the historical specificity of that generic intervention, we wouldnote that the revisionism is simultaneously legible as an ethical critique of thetragic revengers plot that typically underlies the western genre.28. Ibid., 13132. Though mysterious, the realization of this miracle is not,

perhaps, entirely inexplicable. One could underscore the recurrence of the wordconsensus and especially the phrase the souls latent talent for consensus,fromArrabals Lot 49 discourse on the anarchist miracle (13132).29. Against the Day also portrays an incomplete version of such a world in thevignette of the community founded on vengeance suspended(970). But thevengeance, in this case, is suspended simply because the ostensible targets ofblood-feud revengeremove themselves to a compound beyond the reach of thewould-be avengers. The practical effect is undeniable, halting the cyclical operationsof violent reprisal, but one might still view this solution as the unconvertedversion. In Vineland, another anticipation of the revenge problem appears in theform of the Thanatoids, fully embodied ghosts: They were victims [. . .] ofkarmic imbalancesunanswered blows, unredeemed suffering, escapes by the

guiltyanything that frustrated their daily expeditions on into the interior ofDeath, with Shade Creek, a psychic jumping-off townbehind it, unrolling, regionsunmapped dwelt in by these transient souls in constant turnover, not livingbut persisting, on the skimpiest of hopes.See Pynchon, Vineland, 173. Here unmappedspace corresponds to a state of suspended vengeance. Of their emotionsPynchon writes, Among these the most common by far was resentment, constrainedas Thanatoids were by history and by rules of imbalance and restorationto feel little else beyond their needs for revenge(171). One might think