Flatness and Language

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Bonnie Surfus suggests that Pynchon's language has (deliberately?)
deteriorated since V., but although does she mean to include GR in that
generalization.  Actually, V. has always struck me as being rather "flat"
despite occasional brilliant moments (especially the tour-de-force Chapter
3), but is there anything anywhere in Pynchon that matches the sheer
flow and eloquence of some passages in GR?  I'm think in particular of the 
Advent/Battle of the Bulge meditation (set against Susso's song) and the
Titan passage.

VINELAND inevitably pales by comparison, but even there moments of
eloquence emerge.

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN