some loose ends

[Doug Millison]

The instability of time runs throughout P's work -- that Radiant Hour in GR,
the missing 11 days in M&D, etc.. For what it's worth, it's a trait that
Pynchon's work shares with the novels of Kawabata (an author P mentions by
name in his introduction to Stone Junction, which permits the assumption
that P is familiar with K's work), especially Thousand Cranes, where time is
out of joint, cultural touchstones of the seasons are wrong, people are late
or early, etc. 

Otto:
The chapter opens with the notion that not even time is stable [snip]