VL-IV or Vineland, the slow drip read. PP. 56 ff

[Mark Kohut]

My hosting, as is my wont, will be many short posts. I hope this does not overly annoy anyone who just wants to delete my posts
in the speediest fashion and wishes there were fewer! Smile if you haven't deleted this yet.

Short notes/postings are one way I read closely. My working premise is that TRP has enfolded much, much into the weave of ALL of his books.
He is poetic--as well as encyclopedic and so much more---and his associative poetic patterns pervade every work and his whole life's work. 
Many lifetime themes are overarchingly---and embeddedly---coherent, as we all seem to agreee with in our various ways. 

Another hope is that short postings will enable quick respones. (Not, "O, he's so crazy on SO MANY things I don't know where to start"....)

I think that it is only with the publication of "Against the Day" that we can now 'see' much in earlier work that we could not see earlier. Like a Face---TRPs---
in almost Ev'ry Word, so to speak. Vineland is a different book to me after AtD, not 180 degrees different, sorta Icelandic Spar-like re-located. But mostly 
deeper, I think. 

Many will think certain speculations, tentative connections and associations are .......wrong. Stupid. Crazy. So, tell me. Challenge me. Ask those
follow-up questions that matter. (You can sometimes agree too, occasionally, and point to more to see/read.)

But, Pynchon had a seventen year publishing hiatus between GR and Vineland, and although most of us are pretty sure he was working on other books too,
he had all the time he needed to make Vineland be EXACTLY what he wanted it to be in every line, is another working premise of mine. 

Happy New Year & Cheerly,

Mark