<div dir="ltr">Thinking of which Pynchon works did Wood come up with this <div>application to Pynchon? Vineland, Lot 49? </div><div><br></div><div>Because, as Tracy straightforwardly observed re Pirate's supposed </div><div>'reality-based'--he's awoken from his dream and seen a real rocket's</div><div>entrails--banana breakfast, it, as described it is irreal, a heightened kind</div><div>of nod to real 'reality' so to speak, so maybe that breakfast prep might</div><div>be hysterical realism but then comes, </div><div><br></div><div>a giant adenoid and P's surrealism is in our face, like coke. </div><div><br></div><div>Pirate visits it every day for 2.5 years! Why? </div></div>