Re: VLVL2 (1) Zoyd's WORK

[Tim Strzechowski]

>
> Yes, this is a very important point. It is,  for example,  Z's
> **choice** to put on a dress. Z wants a dress that will look good on the
> Tube. And he gets the dress because his plan is to do something
> different this year (go up to a logger bar in a dress with Cheryl's
> pretty little chain saw and destroy some of the property there instead
> of jumping through a window).
>

These are excellent points you make, Terrance, and I sort of wonder if the
whole WORK reading couldn't, in a way, be applied to *all* of Pynchon's
novels.  Could one not argue that all of his novels are about working and
occupations and jobs, whether those jobs involve the task of solving a
mystery or establishing a boundary or fulfilling one's condition?

Could one arguably justify that WORK is a common theme in Pynchon's novels?

And, in a way, isn't "work" (both as verb and noun) one of the themes of
_Pale Fire_?

Tim