VLVL(5) Why Hawaii?

[Richard Romeo]

I love the airplane scene--In fact, the X-Files would,
a few years later, do something similar in an episode
about alien abductions--without the hawaiian music of
course (Max, if I'm not mistaken)

rich


--- Dave Monroe <monrovius at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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