For this Type II project, we were given the choice of four texts to use and introduce a secondary text into. I chose Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and, after reading through the book, opted to write my own secondary text rather than using an existing one from another source. I wrote as the dead Pierce Inverarity and interject his opinion throughout the entirety of the text, including addressing the main characters in his voice. Sometimes, when I felt his character would be fed up with whatever was happening in the plot, I would have him play with the text and make it relatively illegible. This would force the reader to move onto (what Pierce deemed to be) a more entertaining part of the story. His voice becomes more prominent as the book progresses, sometimes entirely impeding the progress of the reader to enable his message getting across until, at last, the main character confirms in one simple line, "Pierce Invararity was really dead." At this point, Pierce's voice drops out entirely and the book ends just as quietly as it begins.
