VLVL2 (3) A Finesi Romance #1

[Paul Nightingale]

> 
> Speaking of ideological bias, Paul N's elaborate critique of those
> Sylvester
> and Tweety cartoons, with all that stuff about Granny and the cage
(what
> about the bulldog, Buster wasn't it?), well-written and entertaining
as it
> was, had little to do with Pynchon's text.

So I'm guessing, what, C-?

> More often than not Tweety was
> out of the cage when the actual chaser and "chasee" stuff was
happening,

Obviously, if he's being chased.  But in or out of the cage doesn't
really matter. It's always 'there' (his failure to fly isn't the result
of Granny's home cooking). And the hegemonic illusion I described is, of
course, dependent on a 'free' subject, for whom the cage is 'home'.

> which is Pynchon's referent in the chapter. And I think Granny only
ever
> appeared in a handful of episodes.
>

Does it matter how many episodes? Such repetitive narratives have a
cumulative effect, one that is less dependent on such number-crunching.
Nothing you've said here invalidates my reading. Must try harder.