what go around come around?

[Terrance]

hmmmm, this is the karmic retribution, the reading of the WTC and VL
popular here. 
And it exactly what pynchon rejects in VL. 


pynchon's depiction of this universe (VL) makes it clear that violence
and death sometimes result from the pursuit of justice, redemption, and
love, an insight embodied by the novel's final image: Prairie, sleeping
alone in the clearing where she was almost abducted by Brock Vond and to
which she returned hoping that he might come again, finds herself
awakened by "a warm and persistent tongue all over her face." It is not
Brock, of course, but Desmond, her dog, missing for days, "the spit and
image of his grandmother Chloe, roughened by the miles, face full of
blue-jay feathers, smiling out of his eyes, wagging his tail, thinking
he must be home" (385). Desmond, it seems has gotten even with the blue
jays, who, we remember from the opening page of the novel, used to steal
food from his dish, eventually developing "an attitude" that made them
bold enough to chase cars and pickups for miles down the road and bite
anybody who didn't like it." What goes around comes around, thematically
and structurally, as the final image of the book returns us to the
beginning. 

This circularity is, however, a pynchonian joke because, unlike TCL49,
VL is an essentially teleological novel. The quote from Emerson is drawn
from the late essay "The Sovereignty of Ethics" (1878), and as we saw in
chapter 2, it is governed by the idea of liberal theology: The civil
history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked
in higher moral generalizations;-- virtue meaning physical courage, then
chastity and temperance, then justice and love;--bargains of kings with
people of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to
masses,--then at last came the day when, as the historians rightly tell,
the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all
men were born free and equal" (187). Toward the end of the essay,
Emerson declares that "man does not live by bread alone, but by faith,
by admiration, by sympathy," and he predicts that "america shall
introduce a pure religion" (202-3). 

VL demonstrates what that idea might look like in practice.