What does Pynchon do?

[Terrance]

> > A novel like GR might be more appropriate if we could
> > discuss it not as a W.W.II novel (since it is not really a W.W.II novel,
> > but a novel about weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation of
> > such weapons), but as a novel written in the 1970s. Why does Pynchon
> > drop the bomb after GR? VL doesn't mention the bomb. Why not?
> 
> Great question! IMO volumes could be written about this but it seems
> to me that Vin(e)land/"Oceania" accepts the bomb and superpower
> globalism, and speaks of the pathos of those ruling ideals instead of
> their actuality and threat. Basically, people lived under the Bomb
> too long and accepted it as background noise (much as people living
> under threat of death, such as the elderly, HIV patients or
> Palestinians, have come to accept imminent death as part of their
> milieu).


Maybe because Pynchon, the more mature man, the man that looks back at
what he wrote as a very young author of the "Slow Learner stories", a
first novel that won some prizes, a pretty crappy half novel that has
been misread and anthologized, and even GR, a fantastic giant white
whale of a book, realized that all his early stuff was not the kind of
fiction


" that moved and pleased me then as now was precisely that which had
been made luminous, undeniably authentic by having been found and taken
up, always at a cost, from deeper and more shared levels of the life we
all really live." 

So the bomb had no place in the deeper shared levels of life we were
really living. 

GR ends with Nixon in the American Theatre/Theater. 

THE END

Tom is done with that kind of fiction. 

So what of Vond and Frenesi? 
They are just the images. Film. Certainly not the deeper shared life we
are really living NO. 

Diving deeper, what will he discover? 

M&D is even deeper in this regard.