VL-IV (12) pages 218-226 The End of the Road.

[Robin Landseadel]

Spoo!

Should read:

> Pynchon's sense of California as terminal dislocation also points to  
> "Vineland" as a terminus, the final stop, a land of the dead or at  
> least a suburb of the semi-dead filled with those who are not really  
> alive, Thanatoids as perfect couch potatoes, a depiction of  
> America's collective bardo state while hypnotized in front of the  
> Tube.