VLVL(12) pgs 239- 246

[Bekah]

I can't recall any television shows which used the flashback/flash- 
forward a whole lot.  Many of them moved forward quite fast sometimes  
but I don't remember a lot of switching around between time  
periods.   (Maybe Happy Days and Mash went from today's scene to  
yesterday's to dreamland to today again - yes,  and they were both  
"period" pieces,  set in a time a few years prior to the writing.)

Bekah


On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

>> What is Pynchon trying to do with the  time switches between 1969,  
>> 1984, and in between.
>>
>> 1.  Are the switches in time and place done arbitrarily or is  
>> there a rhythm, a rhyme or a reason to them?
>>
>> And are they intended:
>> 1.  to replicate the way movies were doing the  backflash/forward  
>> flash - now meld into three days ago?
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:
>
>> The narrative flow in Vineland often dives into the waste-pit of  
>> time. very much in the style of Made for TV movies. And that's  
>> just what happens when we meet Dr. Elasmo—oops, I mean Larry.  
>> Interesting to note that Weed Atman's memory is triggered because  
>> of Dr. Elasmo's TV commercials.
>
> TV is very much the thing in Vineland, and most of the narrative  
> tricks—juggling time to push the story forward—are derived from  
> television, in particular the conventions of the made for TV movie,  
> a subject addressed frequently and with a great deal of invention  
> in Vineland.