IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[Tore Rye Andersen]

John:

> Sure, but we do have to sort of figure it out. And it's still a little
> tricksy, no? As with ATD, the date is never, or rarely, made explicit.
 
You're right about that. And of course it's the same in GR, where Pynchon
rarely mentions any explicit dates, but where even the most casual referece
to the weather or a song playing on the radio nevertheless allows the reader 
- at least as thorough a reader as Steven Weisenburger - to pinpoint the 
action precisely in time. Weisenburger - or others of his caliber - have
yet to map the exact chronology of AtD, but it's probably the same deal
as in GR: Casual, easily ignored remarks may be just the chronological
signposts we're looking for in the wilderness. Damn. If only Pynchon
could include a timeline in the frontmatter of his next novel. 
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