VLVL(5) Why Hawaii?

[Dave Monroe]

Well, I tend not to reread ahead during tehse things,
and I recall Vineland least well of all the novels,
but ... but the card does reappear, no?  As does
Takeshi?  The relative lack of concern to outright
(ac)quiescence on the part of both passengers and
airline and the typically American way any concerns
that might/do arise are dealt with, via litigation,
settlements and, er, comped drinks, not to mention the
typically Pynchonian shadowy conspiracy types (not to
mention the [air]ship of fools in flight here) do seem
to, if not add up, be part of a serial summation which
continues to be added up/on to in Mason & Dixonj, and,
perhaps, beyond.  A sequence in the Big Sigma here ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> The flight episode is by far the strangest in the
> book thus far. And, reading ahead, behind, and all
> around, there seems top be no reason why Pynchon
> stuck this episode in here. OK, we get the business
> card. So? We meet T. So? Who is he? How does Zoyd
> know him? What the hell is going on? And what has
> this flight episode to do with anything that
> happens in this book? Godzilla? Another goon squad?
> Adds up to nothin.

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