[Book Notes] Pinball, 1973

There is still a lack of names, but there is a fuller return of understanding from "the twins," the women, the Rat, J, the professor, and even the protagonist himself, who is unnamed. The twins say, "what is a name?"

There is less of a sense of meaning. The book plays with the feeling of the passage of time more. Both the Rat and the protagonist seem stuck — they ask if this is it. The protagonist and Rat went about things differently. The protagonist develops in shadow. Rat needed to go.

The relationships in Pinball matter: the twins and the protagonist, Rat and the woman, the partners and protagonist and the secrecy around Rat and J.

— Jay