Pynchon and The Tempest. Relatedly. If interested.

[Mark Kohut]

Against the Day and M & D are full of Tempest allusions. A magnificent,
magical play which TRP obviously loves. Which meant it went deep.  I have
been rereading and rehearing and will resee it soon. I urge you all
to encounter it or again.

Anyway, a couple--three correspondences, Kute or just cutely possible.
Besides "cheerly" in the opening scenes of both:

The little ball of talking electricity in AtD: a spirit as it were, like
Ariel: ...
"Sometime I'ld divide And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards
and boresprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Act I, Scene
2, ll. 198-201 Ariel "flam'd amazement"---love this phrase.

ending with grace:
"in what may be a defining exchange at the end of The Tempest, Caliban agrees
to follow Prospero's orders to 'trim' his cell. 'Ill be wise hereafter /
And seek for grace,' Caliban adds, responding with unwonted cooperation to
Prospero's equally"...Caliban's promise looks to time after the play ends,
of course.

In the play, which takes place in real time---the only one of S's to do
so--we learn of an important past of 12 years ago and we hear stories of
other places and possibilities, including the future--marriage and a return
to a Dukedom. Other European cities are always part of the play's past and
future.

Perhaps my overabsorbtion in Pynchon projects mental correspondences  to
the levels of storytelling in P's two tempest-toss'd books or perhaps they
are analogous...tales within tales, so to simplify, within a present.
Other European cities past and future are always in the backdrop of the play,
which feels sometimes like M & D's ways. Always England in the brave new
world [from The Tempest, of course], yet anachronistic buried allusions to
later times than M & D's times, for example..