VLVL(5) Why Hawaii?

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe 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?  

Yeah, that little dynamo humms again. 
Or is that a sears poncho? 



>As does Takeshi?  

Not sure this is the same Takeshi that hooks up with vibrating palmists
later on. 



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 ...

Yeah, it looks like P ripped this off from the back of a tour guide
ticket. 
Zappa got some of his material off the back of Pynchon novels.