Pynchon mention re rock, paper, scissors game

[Terrance]

> That's why parody better characterizes this technique than satire.
> To be effective, satire requires a common objective frame of
> reference on which it is based, or else risks becoming self-referential
> or self-satirical, which, as a matter of fact, would make it parody-
> self-parody. Pynchon denies us the common frame of reference,
> or objectivity, required by satire, except in one respect- television,
> our one truly common frame of reference. TV becomes the object of
> his satire. Hector is saved, and, Tube willing, Zoyd will never die.


All of P's books are Satires. 
None of Pynchon's Satire's are Parodies. 

To see how this works read, 

A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon
Theodore D.
Kharpertian 


Magic Realism's ass. P's MO is fairly simple, he writes satire. The 
Pattern Kharpertain discovers, Parody-Fantasy is evident in the Parrot
episode we're reading. The frame is Satire, the US Government invades
The Emerald Triangle (a real place in California) where potent pot
grows, its description and the invasion are described figuratively, the
invaders look like Ollie North and CIA, former soldiers of fortune,
conservative fanatics, and slides into a Parody of TV (Chuncko with
flame-thrower, Nazi pilot... cartoon) then into the fantastic (not magic
realism, whatever that is).