grgr (34): pinball wizzard?!

[Dave Monroe]

Reference to the animated ball which bounces--or, at least, bounced--over the
subtitled lyrics to songs in short films produced to lead singalongs as one of many
preludes (cartoons, newsreels, whatever) to feature films as shown in the US, at
least, ca. 1930s-1960s ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

>                       "follow the bouncing ball:" (760)
>
> does this, also refering back to 583, somehow suggest that the pinball machine
> is a, well, "epistemological model" for the novel?! & if so: can this be
> observed as a pop-cultural meta-framing of the text? how is gr's pinball machine
> related to the video-games in vineland?
>
>  kfl