Alien Abduction, et al.

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Bonnie Surfus writes:
"convex, concave, . . . doesn't matter, as long as there are two dark
eyes.  They can be dots, small or large. . . still, doesn't matter.
Maybe it's too much aunting that informs this theory. "

To be "lovable," though, they have to be big, dark and shiny--again, see
Disney--and the parodies of those eyes in several Chuck Jones cartoons
(the coyote does not have big, shiny eyes--but squirrels and mice do).

To bring us back to Pynchon, who after all does not draw aliens or critters
with big, shiny eyes (I think--but he might want to depict lemmings and pigs?
in that manner), there is that motif of the turning head in GR.  What to
make of *that*?

Is it my imagination, or is everyone's style becoming more telegraphic and
cryptic, a la Mr. Koopman (whom I don't always understand but do enjoy--like
a messenger from Finnegan's dream).

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN