well done captain obviousThe important metaphor is the tower. It shows up in tarot but also pynchon and yes the wake
I think he must've it's hard to miss if you're paying attention and he washas Pynchon ever read the Wake? there's a reference to Thurn und taxis in it early on that perhaps he picked up on.
Error is everywhere in Tristram Shandy; it’s the most glitch-ridden book imaginable—it’s all glitch. Everything gets lost or misdirected; every action generates unwanted consequences. For the system-elaborating Walter, Tristram represents no more or less than the disaster zone in which all systems are undone; in the travails Sterne heaps with almost sadistic pleasure on the boy, Walter sees “my system turned topside-turvy,” the “fine network of the intellectual web” that he feels is man’s due get “rent and torn.” “Unhappy Tristram! child of wrath! child of decrepitude! interruption! mistake! and discontent!