Preface |
A Reader's Guide
to William Gaddis's The Recognitions
III.1 Synopsis Pages 723-32; January 1950. In this brief
chapter we learn that Otto, having fled the United States
with his counterfeit money, has returned to Central
America. This time he does indeed witness a revolution
and, after being knocked unconscious by a falling horse,
develops Ménière's syndrome - such, at any rate, is the
diagnosis of Dr. Fell, the same physician who had
maltreated Wyatt many years before. Disoriented and
sporting a sling for a real broken arm, Otto now
calls himself Gordon (after the Byronic hero of his
play).
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