Grace Notes

[alice wellintown]

> Pynchon's earlier works to IV, tying the novels together in a rather novel
> manner. In other words, although Pynchon has not created a Yoknapatawpha county
> or Macando, the novels do connect (eg, through names or themes) albeit in a
> subtle Joycean manner. (To some extent this was taken up in another thread on
> the Traverse clan and how it connects the novels.)

I'm not convinced oth this. How are the works tied together with names?