lost thread on foreshadowing (or is that the right word)

[Fiona Shnapple]

Determinism. This words is better than foreshadowing because it fits
in with the dark and the light, the Physics Pynchon seems to toy with.

But it is, in literary tradition, a foreshadowing, in the sense that,
upon re-reading, as Nabokov advises, we see the light.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I din't have time to comment on an early post of Monte's, which I cannot
> find now,
> in which he points out how often when we are introduced to a Pynchon
> character or
> two meet in a scene, they are presented to us with some kind of
> foreknowledge....THEN.
>
> Let's all discuss this? What could be some meanings of THAT, since it is
> very true?
> No "chance" in their life, in the story? All is fated (already; to them).
> Nabokov-like patterning?
>
>
> (I just caught some of Kubrick/Nabokov's Lolita televisually, including the
> wonderful scene
> when Mason reflects that if he made it look like chance, he might get away
> with shooting Lolita's
> mom. Shelley Winters.....but then he can't do it, he tells us...and she gets
> killed by chance. (hit by a car in the movie
> the famous "picnic/lightning' in the novel)
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