Series Editor's Preface Introduction Borges and Pynchon:The Tenuous Symmetries of Art Toward the Schizo-Text: Paranoia as Semiotic Regime in The Crying of Lot "Hushing Sick Transmissions":Disrupting Story in The Crying of Lot "A Metaphor of God Knew How Many Parts":The Engine that Drives The Crying of Lot A Re-cognition of Her Errand into the Wilderness Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography