Does the Broken Estate Have a Heart?

[Carvill, John]

<<This passage, provided by John,  fails to convince this reader.

A Pynchon reader can not help but recognize that this is a recycled
relationship (Zoyd and Prairie of Vineland) and that the beautiful
descriptive language and imagery here, like the fantastic description,
from Prairie's POV, of the Trees, Trees, Trees ... in Vineland, while
stunning and loaded with emotion and grace, doesn't transplant a real
heart into a not real character. The unholy triangle of Praire and
Zoyd and Frenesi is an allegorical cartoon baloon construct deflated
by the manic style; as characters, they collapse under the weight of
Pynchon's manic brilliance (overwritten, overdetermined, whatever...)
and, this is not an error on Pynchon's part, a weakness, it's
intentional, be design. >>

Ok, well it was just one passage of many. Dunno about 'recyled', but
yeah of course it has Vineland resonances. Pynchon does that resonances
thing. And how many entirely orignal emotional dynamics can any author
be expected to depict? What's that old thing about there only being 7
basic plotlines? How many unique emotions are there? 

What about Merle and Teresa, then? That almost Chekhovian moment not
saying what they should, him not going after her, not seizing moment. Or
Mayve saying goodbye to Kit? Or Constance and Hunter Penhallow, another
instance of sadness of seperation, someone leaving, relationship between
family members, etc.

In any case, for some, me included, Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary are
interesting not because of their characters, but because of the artistry
Tolstoy and Flaubert bring to depicting them.

Not sure what you mean by this bit:

"The unholy triangle of Praire and Zoyd and Frenesi is an allegorical
cartoon baloon construct deflated by the manic style."

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate *the way* you say it. I just don't know
exactly what you mean. What is the relationship between of Praire and
Zoyd and Frenesi an allegory of? Probably I;m missing something...