I don't think Lot 49 is meaningless at all -- it has a lot to say about people who get wrapped up in conspiracy theories and how once you go down that road, eve

I don't think Lot 49 is meaningless at all -- it has a lot to say about people who get wrapped up in conspiracy theories and how once you go down that road, everything begins to look like part of it. That's as relevant to politics today as it was in the 1960s when Pynchon wrote it.