Irony & Narrative Commentary & Control in VL & adorno

[Michael Joseph]

sidebar: another layer of irony adheres in the diction. Not only is
Pynchon giving us a prolepsis of events to come, but by employing the
vernacular ("he sure would" "updates"), he is also giving a prolepsis of a
a certain process, of how Zoyd and his cohort will metabolize the events,
in this way supplying a parallax view (the view of the sliding landscape
from within the moving boat as well as the moving boat). In this sense,
doesn't the narrator evidence another aspect commonly ascribed to
omniscience, and touched on in the quotation from K., by implying multiple
points of view coexisting simultaneously?


Michael