VLVL Pynchon's participatory narration

[Dave Monroe]

Au contraire, mon frere ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Note the way this passage is filtered through
> Frenesi's viewpoint: these are her intuitions and
> attitudes, her biases, exaggerated seemingly to the
> point of self-conscious parody on her part, and they
> ultimately reflect on her as much they do
> on "working cops" or the _TV Guide_, if not more so.

Not "filtered" so much as perhaps, I don't know,
participating in it for the time being.  There's taht
sort of swerving viewpoint thing Pynchon does that
reminds me, say, these days, of that long,
bobbing-in-and-out-of-the-water shot in Boogie Nights
(1997).  That passage is actually a nifty little bit
of media criticism, and one in sympathetic vibration
with the overall vibe of the novel.  That "right wing
weekly" might represent the culmination of Frenesi's
particular left-wing, even at this late date, rhetoric
on the matter there, but one can hardly call Vineland
a novel relishing the prospect of an apparently
forthcoming, if not already established, police state,
although it certainly does anticipate, identify the
ways in which one might establish/has established
itself, by 1984, by 1990, whenever, with the, if not
consent, acquiescence--quiescence, at any rate--of its
subjects.  "Nobody thought it was peculiar anymore." 
Okay, hope to lap up a few more notes today, so ...

> We've seen other sides to Hector -- his kindness
> towards Zoyd, his insights into the politics of the
> DEA -- and we also know about Frenesi's CHiPs-
> masturbation routine and her affair with Brock.


	
		
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