I don't know if this is the first time, but I noted that here is one place where Pynchon narrates through cinema: "The cameraman is pleased at the unexpected effect of so much flowing crepe..."; that's always been a technique in this book that fascinated me, and of course the significance of the reader as viewer is affirmed in the very last scene of the book...
Along with all of the rest of us preterite, I've only become aware recently of how pedophilia and sexual abuse are a key component of power out here in the real world. The oven game reads very differently today than it did before Epstein ... Pynchon knew, ofc.
I don't know if this is the first time, but I noted that here is one place where Pynchon narrates through cinema: "The cameraman is pleased at the unexpected effect of so much flowing crepe..."; that's always been a technique in this book that fascinated me, and of course the significance of the reader as viewer is affirmed in the very last scene of the book...
Along with all of the rest of us preterite, I've only become aware recently of how pedophilia and sexual abuse are a key component of power out here in the real world. The oven game reads very differently today than it did before Epstein ... Pynchon knew, ofc.
"Special Attraction for Adults:
How Money Reproduces
Anatomically Valid
Not Just Entertainment
Money's Own Genitals
Nothing Left Out!"
-- Rilke, tenth elegy, Blicero's favorite