VLVL "happy ending"?

[umberto rossi]

In data 29 May 2004, verso le 20:59, pynchonoid si trovò a scrivere 
su Re: VLVL "happy ending"?:

> Pynchon makes Zoyd
> and co. one big happy at the novel's end (they even
> accept Frenesi back from beyond the pale), while
> depicting Brock with no redeeming social values and
> condemning him to a kind of living hell.

A kind? At the end of the fair Brock Vond is sent to hell, period. Is 
that a way to express sympathy? Had Pynchon sent both Brock and Zoyd 
there, I might understand. But then, I realize that I should read 
again all the ending of Vineland before saying anything. Anyway, the 
issue of the happy end, silly as it might seem, looks like a question 
that may teach us something about this novel.

umberto rossi
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