Vineland: The Sit-Com

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:09 PM
Subject: Vineland: The Sit-Com


(quoting vhummell I think)

> Ultimately, the managed version of reality serves Brock Vond
> and no one else which again indicates that Pynchon's book is
> concerned with questions of power and politics.

Does it really serve BV and no one else?

In cop shows the cop always wins.

And soap heroines are long suffering but are always restored to health for 
the next segment.

TV doesn't seem like a very sinister force in VL (over and beyong what we 
always knew about its being a wasteland and time waster).

I like McHales idea that TV is useful for zapping between various realities.

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