VLVL (6) Pynchon's parables

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> 
> A thing about fairy tales is they have their roots in human realities and
> the thing about Pynchon's novels is that their roots are in the realities
> of US society, history, politics, culture etc etc. They can be examined and
> enjoyed in many different ways.

Just what I suspected, you skip most of the book and examine only those
parts that you enjoy. Hence your partial and distorted reading. That's
not fair to the author.  Moreover, any good reader of fiction will tell
you that nothing is less enjoyable than reading a novel, say, VL, with
the preconceived notion that it is a denunciation of "Fascist
Capitalism." A work of art, a novel, like VL, is invariably the creation
of a new world. The first thing you need to do to enjoy a novel like VL
is to follow your Alice, go with your Prufrock, take a ride on that
happy horse hurling hilariously heavenward  with Baron Von Munchausen
and then, and only then, after you have taken tea and cakes and ices
with Mad Hatters and Mona Lisas, you may study it's contours, textures
and brush strokes, it's music and magic and madness, its textures and
contours ...and draw disarms and schematics ... and then connection to
other worlds and other arts and sciences.