unreliable? in Vineland, nights in white satin ...

[Terrance]

> 
> "rude update" is a lovely surprise, and conveys the creativity of the
> hipster vernacular Pynchon is modeling. "update" substitutes for
> "awakening," in the commonplace "rude awakening," and is appropriated from
> the tubal culture _VL_ so excessively references. 

OK. We're all quite familiar with  McHale's "Zapping, the art of
switching channels: on Vineland", right? 


So, by paying attention
> to the structure of the sentence, we see how hipster vernacular improvises
> itself, like music and, more broadly, like the kind of postmodern novel,
> and the postmodern life, to which Pynchon is alluding. 

Improvises itself?