Paul's refrain, "fit the pieces together you see how fit the . . . damn pieces together," represents Gaddis's challenge to the reader. It is not easy to carry out. Gaddis leaves readers in the dark quite often: the initials VCR are used without revealing what they stand for until the end; a letter from Thailand arrives and its contents are divulged, again, not until the end; and names are dropped but not identified for pages. A description of the house itself — as "a patchwork of conceits, borrowings, deceptions . . ......
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