I'm getting my PHD in the Subversive Use Of The Comma in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and I think I see a pattern.

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

There is a kind of forced, made for T.V. quality to the ending, but it also 
contains a real sense of family reunion, and of joy and return. But the 
Brock/Prairie interaction does point how it's in the blood, and Lake was 
probably on Pynchon's mind as he wrote this penultimate conclusion 
to Vineland. The actual conclusion, Desmond, face full of Blue-Jay feathers,
thinking he must be home, is genuinely beautiful, like the ending of 
Against the Day.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net>
> Me too.
> 
> Ray
> 
> On Thursday, Jul 5, 2007, at 16:08 US/Central, kelber at mindspring.com 
> wrote:
> 
> > Happy ending?  I thought the ending was clouded over by the sinister 
> > Prairie-Brock encounter.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: MARK CONNAUGHTON <spaceagebeatnik at msn.com>
> >  Paranoia...
> >> The book's JIVE...
> >> The book's happy ending...
> >
>