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In contrast, Private Domain, an amazing dance about sex, can be frank because its plotlessness confers a kind of anonymity, as audience members peer around columns that partially obscure the action.
After all, the novel's formula is much the same as it was in Pynchon's earlier books, a formula that had been lambent (to borrow a popular word in Against the Day) up to now: overplotted plotlessness, cartoon names, science sorties, surreal shenanigans, and tortuous, torturous syntax.
Indeed, the audience at the Guild Seminar seemed to be in a state of "I know, but I don't know what I know," for question after question was put to the dancers, each one ignoring the fact of Jewels's plotlessness.
 
 
 
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