V.V.(1+2) Chapter One: Call For Conclusions

[Dave Monroe]

Sorry it took me so long to respond here, but ... cj, let's face it,
when it comes to Pynchon, we're all (and I mean ALL) in over our heads.
But that's what makes it interesting, challenging, exciting, fun,
even.   At any rate, that's why we can keep typing away at it here,
because we're always scrambling for the surface, for that quick breath,
perhaps, to sustain us, as we bob and sink and dogpaddle furiously,
hoping for a glipmse of that shore, that ship, that helicopter, even as
I'm doing trying desperately to keep my trope afloat (...) here, but ...

But, hey, we're still talking, and, I think, often about the issues you
yourself have raised.  I offer that long citation from Sontag on
"Happenings" in re: comedy and automatons, for example, as a possible
reason for that "weird," "disassociated" "feel" you note in V., in those
Pynchonian texts, to those Pynchonian charcaters and their Pynchonian
comings and goings.  I might even take on this "hosting" thing myself if
the chance comes 'round again--monologue, banter, the band, "I hear
you've brought a clip," the whole shmear ...