parrots in Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Let's riff on this for a moment....parrots are like tripping, 
getting high, giggling and talking a lot; parrots are like
magical realism, flights of surreal connections -verbally--, 
what is 'reality' re the parrots asks Bekah and maybe

the reality is that they mediate reality--that huge Vineland theme--
with words that connect magically, so to speak, like word-users
who mediate reality for us?  Words they hear but repeat in unusual
ways.  a small symbol of the writer in the modern world?