VLVL Berger: rock'n'roll

[jbor]

>> Little wonder that Pynchon makes reference to Zappa, who used rock and
>> roll in the 60s to make fun of hippies, instead of the likes of
>> Jefferson Airplane
> 
> Pynchon's nod to Zappa at the end of the _SL_ 'Intro' (23) does appear to be
> an affectionate one, and I agree that there's an affinity, nowhere more so
> perhaps than _Vineland_, which is probably the novel he was working on at the
> time he wrote that passage.

And there's the reference to Frank Zappa's face on Frenesi's cousin's
"minidress" at the wedding, the image printed "from neck to hemline ... thus
linking her in Zoyd's mind somehow with Mount Rushmore." (39)

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