VLVL Takeshi

[Terrance]

> 
> The earlier comment about Takeshi's feet is actually direct speech, so it is
> DL narrating directly. As already discussed, Pynchon's characteristic
> narrative strategy is to filter the (supposedly detached) narrative through
> different characters' povs. But in this section, while it's explicitly
> framed as Takeshi telling the story, there's quite a bit of material in his
> account which is introduced by a detached, third person narrator who
> editorialises on the story Takeshi is telling. In many ways it's like a
> flashback rather than a nested narrative, and the jokey reference to Takeshi
> being "high" and gliding across the airport lounge can be attributed to this
> editorialising narrator rather than to Takeshi.

I think that something like McHale's Chinese-Box worlds is at play here
in this chapter: Frequency interrupting the primary diegesis with nested
representations in diverse media (novels-within-novels,
films-within-the-novel, still-photographs).