The [Unholy] Triangle (Vineland)

[Campbel Morgan]

The love triangle, a formula as old as story telling perhaps, and
certainly one that has worked well for many a might author, Homer,
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton just to name a couple-few giants before
the novel, is used by P in every novel. In Vineland he carts the
triangle out onto the stage (and we do well to remember that many of
P's characters are actors playing actors watching themselves act and
so on... and that, at times his characters are on strings or on tracks
and are pulled onto the stage or wheeled on, and that sometimes the
folm catches or the TV explodes or the flimsy stage set collapses or
we see the facade flapping in the breeze blown by a weather fan ...
what have you) and it functions as a fulcrom for Brock's mad schemes,
his obsessions, and for the Reagam Bush family values allegory.