VLVL(12) pgs 218-226

[Mark Kohut]

Tropics are a good place in Pynchon, let's remember, and parrots, even if they bite, are not predator birds....

for the kids to meet via lucid dreaming in the 'southern part of the forest' is a bit of hope, springing anew (or not lost)  for the next generation in Vineland America, I suggest.



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:42:40 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL(12) pgs 218-226

>From Bekah's great post: 
Pages 222-223  Parrots?  What's with the parrots?  Are they toys to put the kiddies to sleep?  Is the "voice" the one we hear on dolls and electronic gadgets?  They're very colorful,  like Atman in his get-up - which is a tux which might even have a tail.  :-)  (heh)  Parrots are tropical birds - from Nicaragua or some other South American area where we were trying to stop drugs but they said what about ours?  Van Meter apparently has one - Luis - and the description is rather magical - surreal.    But the kids are going, flying,  somewhere jungle-like and meeting in their sleep so it might be more like a drug or television or something.  ???

p. 223 ''figuring out a way to meet, lucidly dreaming"....
 
Lucid dreams = self-aware dreams and linked with astral travel....
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreams