re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> To be way more accurate, the novel "sets out" -- i.e.,
> starting in the very first line of the novel  -- to
> compare Reagan's 1980s America to George Orwell's
> _1984_. P gives the '60s counterculture rebels their
> due, but that comes later, clearly a secondary
> interest for the author:
> 
> "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 [...]"

Well, as I said, the critique of the reagan-bush era is obvious from the
get-go. But reagan-bush is not the target of P's satire. Again, I find
it odd that readers will focus on an allusion (in this example, and
allusion to Orwell's 1984) and ignore the what is clearly not a
secondary interest of the author (in this example, Zoyd Wheeler, his
family,  friends, & associates) and  the characters, plot ... the
elements of fiction. What's odd about this tendency to ignore the
stories while calling attention to obscure allusions and the like is
that this list purports to be a discussion of Pynchon's works. There is
little, if any real discussion of the works themselves here. The eye for
the details obscure and cryptic is the head of the beholder.