LISS/STEPVR defenestration

[Raphael Saltwood]

1) does the defenestration strike a jarring note? 
Defend or what would you put there?

Yes. Got to start somewhere, though. 

"Something publicly crazy" - bordering on magical realism; poesy's license acting on "the hoops people have to jump through to get government help"

what aspects of society does he encounter?
his dog
the bluejays (vogelfrei)
The Vineland Mall
a convoy of Winnebagos with disparagement of his drag costume
loggers
the lingering effects of Star Wars
TV crew
Cucumber Lounge
a buddy (van Meter)
the Mafia in the person of Ralph Wayvone
and Hector

could you put something else instead of a defenestration? 

I'm hard pressed to think of a better beginning. How about he umm...

In terms of Zoyd having done this every year and this year being different, it compares a bit to "Groundhog Day" (favorably, imho, since although I liked Groundhog Day I'm not a howling fan of it)

It also links up with the beginning of V., intertextual with his own previous work. 

Echoes from the past: 

From:	"Meg Larson" 
To:	"Pynchlist" 
Subject: VLVL(1)--Chapter 1 summary
Date:	Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:53:04 -0400

Zoyd goes through the window, immediately sensing something ain't right;
Hector, trying to prove he's still bad, picks up a shard of glass and
proceeds to eat it.  Zoyd remembers reading in the _TV Guide_ "about stunt
windows made out of clear sheet candy " (12.16), and it turns out that Ralph
Jr. had the real glass window replaced with the candy window.  Hector
splits, leaving Zoyd to contemplate the reason for this meeting tomorrow
with the DEA agent, who had spent years trying to get Zoyd to turn into a
narc, and which so far, Zoyd has resisted.  He knows that one day, "just to
have some peace, he'd say forget it and go over" (12.35).  Chapter ends with
Zoyd comparing this situation to Wheel of Fortune, only without "Vanna White
at the corner of his vision to cheer on the Wheel, to wish him well, to flip
over the letters of a message he knew he didn't want to read anyway"
(13.2-4).