Even though I still find Pynchon to be incredibly convoluted, there are places in the text that I think are beautiful, that make the next page or so easier to read. "What I can do for the Schwarzkommando I can do for your dream of pampas and sky....I can take down your fences and your labyrinth walls, I can lead you back to the Garden you hardly remember...."(394).

This section dealing with the U-boat exiles and Springer's cinematic ambition seemed more transparent in conveying its themes than other parts of the novel, something I was more than slightly thankful for. I thought Pynchon took the hopeless/battered Argentine cause to illustrate the obvious futility of inaction and facade.