VL--IV, p. 62 A Pynchon cameo as Zoyd/Orpheus?

[Mark Kohut]

P. 62. Zoyd as Pynchon, a cameo? Zoyd as musician, the first artist, modern Orphic Lute player in a new musical landscape, so to speak, discovers a ukelele option on the lounge synthesizer. (We know about TRP and the uke.) He/It makes music on the trip of death. 

TRP wrote himself into AtD,vignette-size, as well, if this is that. Homage to that unfriendly instrument, the Uke, if not.  Little nod to Hitchcock? Is he in the other novels (in a cameo?). 

And here, Zoyd feels the synthesizer is "making conscious decisions"...as Tore Eye has reminded, quoting from that great book, GR, we are all---even the artist-musician here in Vineland,--- immachinated now.

Cf. Wm. Gaddis' novel re player pianos, another Pynchon homage here?, if interested.