VLVL2 (4): The Mellow Sixties

[Tim Strzechowski]

A nice little emergence of the authorial consciousness here, on page 38:

" [...] and nobody seemed restless, this after all being the Mellow Sixties, a slower-moving time, predigital, not yet cut into pieces, not even by television."

Pynchon, of course, does this several times throughout his other works as well.  In Gravity's Rainbow (middle of p. 606), for example:

" . . . visions go swarming, violent, less erotic than you think -- more preoccupied with thrust, impact, penetration, and such other military values.  Which is not to say he isn't enjoying himself innocently as you do."

In the VL example, I wonder why Pynchon has chosen to have the narrative consciousness emerge for a moment at this particular spot in the narrative?  To what effect(s)?

Tim




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