VLVL "happy ending"?

[Keith McMullen]

 >>> Pynchon makes Zoyd
and co. one big happy at the novel's end <<<

And this reading is just one more example of how you and I read Pynchon 
very differently. Our very first encounter back in the initial MDMD was 
when you got all pissed at me for accusing you of a Sunday School 
reading of M&D. When I see Pynchon's happy endings I do have the exact 
same reaction that I have when I see David Lynch's happy endings. 
Irony. The robins of happiness and light are mechanical birds eating 
bugs. The happy poochies have the feathers of dogfood eating birds all 
around their grins. The mess we're in has no solutions. The right has 
no better solutions than the left. Absurdity and looniness make it 
tolerable some of the time. And, the best way to spend one's time is by 
creating art.