IVIV20: Once or twice, 352

[alice wellintown]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Paul Nightingale
<isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Watching TV allows Doc to imagine his parents (352), just as, on the
> previous page, the "glittering mosaic of doubt" (351) allowed him to imagine
> Sauncho. Absent, his parents can be located in time and place by the TV
> schedules, although what follows will disturb his confident assumption that
> they can be taken for granted.

As I posted a while back, while Toni Morrison has characters, like
Shadack, a paranoid shell-shocked WWI veteran, who returns to Sula and
Nel's hometown, Medallion and invents National Suicide Day, a day that
then becomes a celebration on the calendar, a day the folks come to
use as a day they can count on and mark other events by, so "I was
born the day after National Suicide Day, or married two week prior to
...Pynchon has characters trivialize their lives and relationship with
the Tube, marking the polaroid moments of their lives with TV guides
and TV sports schedules. Like Sula, IV is a Lesbian novel of sorts.