/lit/ - Literature

>>6605771
This is false and I wholeheartedly believe anyone who actually reads the book to its conclusion will find a sprawling, but complete plot with clear themes, meanings and indictments.

Of course there are bizarre passages, digressions, jokes and side stories. Not every detail has to play into the larger picture.

Personally one of the few passages that still confounds me is Pirate at the surreal ballroom party with Katje where everyone speaks cryptically and chews taffy. I'm fairly certain this is one of Pirate's borrowed dreams, but I do not know whose it might be or what it might mean. There is also extensive mention in that segment of people being double and triple agents and so on, which I don't -really- understand, outside of possibly Katje as she appeared to Blicero, but it's been a while since I've read the book and can't recall if Katje ever actually pretended to be on Blicero's side or was just an agent captured/planted as a sex slave.