VLVL Pynchon's filtered narration

[Paul Mackin]

> 
> And what does the "In those days it was still unthinkable" mean? Doesn't it
> mean that later it was thinkable because it had happened?

It means the level of hysteria needed to be cranked up a bit in order to
get anyone to take notice.

Be careful not to succumb to too close an identification between the
thinkable and the actual.

Also the irony thing.