V-2nd: "Adorned" (p. 414, Picador)

[alice wellintown]

Why Adorno? Pynchon read Adams, Spangler, Mumford, McLuhan, Nietzsche,
Marcuse ...the library of so-called cultural pessimists. Right? He
read on Film and Photography, commodification of consumer consent and
blah blah...it was the stuff that Village People feasted on when P
lived in NYC. We can identify these names in his early works? No?
Adorno wasn't around in English. Was he? And, Adorno crashes into P's
Democratic view of the masses or preterit. So, I don't get the P read
Adorno and Adorno influenced his fictions.