VLVL Sketchy in spots?

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:59, Toby G Levy wrote:
> I must have read the last line of Chapter 11 (where Frenesi screams and
> Vond laughs) a dozen times trying to figure exactly what there was about
> it that bothered me.  I have finally decided that it appears "sketchy" to
> me, as if it was a note that the author wrote down intending to expand
> upon the idea at a later date.  There are other spots in Vineland that
> strike me this way as well.  I have long felt that Pynchon turned
> Vineland over to his editor before he was really done with it.  Or maybe
> he just got tired of working on it.  At any rate, it seems to me to be
> the most "unfinished" of all Pynchon's novels.



Doesn't during any sustained reading of the book one get more and more
used to this sort of discontinuity. Things left unexplained,
contradicted. Eventually we stop worrying about it.  For me it becomes
normal p-reality.

Perhaps it just works better in GR than VL. Don't know.