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> 
> I think we're on to something here. After all, didn't VN famously say "all
> reading is rereading" - and that notion is important to Kinbote and to _Pale
> Fire_, as all the haggling here about how to (re)read it proves. Perhaps
> Pynchon's moved on to "all television is reruns"?

I don't think VN said that. 

But anyway, after re-reading McHale's essay "Zapping" I'm convinced that
Old Paul  is on to something
when he talks about what a business publishing stuff on Pynchon and
Postmodernism has become. Yesterday,  or maybe it was the day before,
can't be sure cause mother died and as the Man says in Cool Hand Camus, 
"when a man's mother dies ... " 

 I was reading the FT and there was an article
about how these financial guru guys have come up with a program that
can cut the jargon out of your writing. Kinda like Nestle's diversifying
by buying into Balley's Gyms, but maybe it's a paradigm shift. Who
knows? 
Fred Jameson, that's who! 

 Well, MJ got all pissed off at me because he thinks I accused
him of being Brian McHale's doppelgänger and now that I've re-read the
essay I understand why. 

Playlist 

Caulfield & the Nappy Headed Boyz 

        Smokin' cigarettes and writing something
        nasty on the wall (you nasty boy).
        Teacher sends you to the principal's office down the hall.
        You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain't right
        But while you were doin't it - it sure felt outta sight.

        I wish those days could come back once more.
        Why did those days ever have to go?
        I wish those days could come back once more.
        Why did those days ever have to go?
        'Cause I loved them so.

Nostalgia in P. 

See Berger, Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": 
Pynchon's revision of Nostalgia in Vineland.

See Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez's
Mile Zero and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland by Daniel R. White, 
1991

See Eddins, GP.148-150, (Blicero &  Greta).

See Charles Hohmannn

See Harold Bloom, TRP's  Critical Blooming Lit-Crit Factory 

"Pynchon is a Gnosis without  transcendence, but it is a gnosis haunted
by the possibility  therof--both positively and negatively--and by a
characteristically modernist nostalgia for a quality of human
consciousness that a logos beyond human agency seems once to have
empowered."

Anyway, McHale says he took his title ("Zapping")  from Richard
Shuterman. 

And that's where the New Negro (no I'll never quote that book here
again, nearly got me lynched by the white boyz on the list here) and
talkin that talk might be useful. 

Who knows?