VL--IV "Do you believe in Magic" p. 64

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> I don't think I brought about DYBIM, tho I like the song.

"Do you believe in Magic"? What I've been tracking for neigh on to 30  
years, is the density of spiritual/occult elements in Pynchon's work.

> I was actually thinking about Zoyd's seduction song?  the zig zag of  
> his embrace?  (a surprisingly sexy song)  and how this episode moves  
> into magical realism, so if you had a magic counter, like a Geiger  
> counter, it'd be ticking

"Not what  we'd call a UFO," Gretchen" [see Faust}, "As Gretchen had  
foretold", "Tropic of Cancer" [cross reference to  
Astrology] . . .yeah, sumthin's happinin' on Big Kahuna Airlines.  And  
of course TRP's probably had some exposure to magical realism by the  
time we get to Vineland.

> - there's something otherworldly about KA; its magical realism may  
> be interpreted at least several different ways, but it probably  
> means something; its featuring of ukulele sounds a recurring note in  
> OBA's oeuvre.

Judging from internal evidence, OBA must play a bit of Guitar and the  
Uke. Remember that ref. to George Formby in GR?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSc-e-QffTs

> anyway, before moving on, your comments have provoked the notion in  
> me that the Kahuna Airlines incident sets the tone for the Thanatoid  
> sequences.

There's a wise ass parrot in all of Pynchon's novels from here on out,  
nicht whar?