AtD--How Does it Fit

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Serendipity at its finest, having just encountered this blog from HuffPo, as it threads together the deeper meanings of  all those Hollywood themes laced through GR and Vineland:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-dorchen/us-buys-its-own-bs-_b_29596.html

"Tonight on TBS; it's Zach Braff in "Young Pointsman! (2005)"
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From: jbor at bigpond.com
> On 17/09/2006, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> 
> > 'The Japanese Insurance Adjustor'
> 
> Yes, the "Japanese Insurance Adjustor" is Takeshi in Vineland I think.
> 
> Isn't it also possible that what P. mentioned in passing as his 
> intentions in a letter over 40 ago years evolved somewhat in the 
> meantime. I mean, he can't have envisioned Vineland back when the 
> letter was written because neither of the primary historical contexts 
> had yet occurred.
> 
> But Takeshi (Vineland's Takeshi) seems like he was part of a plan. (And 
> Takeshi is indeed a recurring character. Timewarped in with his magic 
> card on Kahuna Airlines from the Komikal Kamikazes show on the Tube in 
> GR).
> 
> I agree that it's interesting to think of the writing process P. 
> undertakes. V. has always struck me as a series of short stories strung 
> into one another (very deftly and artfully), and perhaps the subsequent 
> works do the same sort of thing except with an extended scope and more 
> assured historical grounding.
> 
> I'd be pretty sure one of Bodine's ancestors will have a naval role 
> somewhere in AtD. New recurrences: maybe one of Tchitcherine's or 
> Djabazev's (sp.) parents?
> 
> best
>