parrots in Pynchon

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

In comparison to your beautiful thoughts, my association will, I fear,
appear to be gross:

"Parrot" = Parody Carrot (enfolded)

Sorry, have been skimming through Finnegans Wake this morning and had
a little bit too much caffeine ...

Kai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OhikAlr2wU

>
> 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?
>