James Berger. Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": Pynchon's revision of Nostaligia in Vineland. Peace & Innocence vs. Violence & Experience Turn off your mind relax and float vs. Loud Chantings to Sympathy for the Devil. The Beatles, it seems to me, write like Pynchon vs. The Stones who write like Wanabee Chucke Berry/Stacks-Motown