Irony & Narrative Commentary & Control in VL & adorno

[Terrance]

> 
> 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?


Would be interesting it we can apply parallax and simultaneous-
multiple- POV to the context. How do these work and what effect do they
produce in the examples from VL we have been discussing?