LISS/STEPVR where’s my jumper

[peterthooper at juno.com]

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From: ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
I don't read Zoyd's dream as troubled. Perhaps my comparison with
Poe's narrator (The Raven) suggests troubled dreams, but Zoyd is no
Gregor Samsa. I brought Poe's poem in to provide an easy example of
the confluence, the mixing of dream and non-dream, with history,
including the author's and the reader's, even of events that transpire
after 1984, the attack on Iran.  Pynchon is known for his use of
anachronisms. These come in many forms, and this is one such. So Nixon
shows up in GR. He mixes media into dream, into history, into readers.
So, you, dear reader, like  watching an opera, with Maxine Tarnow
watching it with her old man, and maybe it's apocryphal and
anachronistic.
 So Mr. Thoth:

 "That cruel old man," said Mr Thoth, "was an Indian killer. God, the
saliva would come out in a string from his lip whenever he told about
killing the Indians. He must have loved that part of it."
"What were you dreaming about him?" "Oh, that," perhaps embarrassed.
"It was all mixed in with a Porky Pig cartoon." He waved at the tube.
"It comes into your dreams, you know. Filthy machine. Did you ever see
the one about Porky Pig and the anarchist?"

Not troubled but nudged.  It's a nudge not a knife.

Know much about Nudge Theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory

Rather be nudged than knifed, that’s for sure; rather nudge than knife.

— Zoyd’s amenable to nudges.
Maybe he was even a football player rather than basketball, there actually is a 6 rivers football conference in Wisconsin. 

https://madison.com/wsj/sports/high-school/football/map-six-rivers-conference-football-schedules-school-locations/collection_6fc0d677-e7d3-5ba4-b6ea-3cda435d9a84.html#1

But whichever sport he was into, Buster easily nudges him aside from his chain-saw plan at the Log Jam, with the help of van Meter on the phone.