VLVL: What troubles Zoyd's sleep?

[Terrance]

> I've come around a bit to your way of thinking I admit. I agree that
> *sometimes* Pynchon's texts do provide explicit judgements which are
> detached from the characters' povs. One example from the current chapter is
> when Zoyd is described as "vile-minded" (60.7). Whose judgement is that? I
> think it has to be the narrator's. Another example is the summative
> observation inserted by the narrator in the previous chapter:
> 
>     War in Vietnam War, murder as an instrument of American
>     politics, black neighborhoods torched to ashes and death,
>     all must have been off on some other planet. (38.18)

And the self-induced orgasm is very bad shit in P's fiction. 

We don't really want to know who killed Shade. Do we? 

"It's true . . . look at the forms of capitalist
  expression. Pornographies: pornographies of love, erotic
  love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of
  sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of
  deduction -- ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer --
  all these novels, these films and these songs that they lull
  us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so,
  to that Absolute Comfort. . . . The self-induced orgasm.