FW: VLVL "happy ending"?

[Terrance]

> 
> Except that scathing is too strong. Pynchon doesn't scathe. He might
> probe. Or better still canoodle. It's a canoodling indictment of the
> failures of . . . . whatever . . ..


I disagree. Pynchon scathes. In fact, I'll go along with Eddins and say
that P is an odd  mixture that includes the scathing reactionary. 

Notice I didn't say traditional or conservative. ;---)