VL-IV [1/2]: Handoff + Time/Place pg. 22

[Robin Landseadel]

Pynchon's writing on 1984 also ties in to themes in Vineland:

	Looking around us at the present moment in
	the US, for example, we note the popularity
	of helicopters as a resource of “law enforce-
	ment,” familiar to us from countless televised
	“crime dramas,” themselves forms of social
	control—and for that matter at the ubiquity
	of television itself. The two-way telescreen
	bears a close enough resemblance to flat
	plasma screens linked to “interactive” cable
	systems, circa 2003.

On Dec 13, 2008, at 7:16 AM, I wrote:

> Pynchon's writing on 1984 [the novel] is worth reading on its own  
> merits:
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_1984.html