Page 666, Featuring - us?
One of the most exceeding rare postures in the surcaresque, hypermorphic fictions of Pynchon is the classic formal device of addressing the reader directly. Admittedly, this is a narrative stance that has been out of fashion oooh, maybe since Nabokov, but hey, it is a legitimate authorial choice. One, I might point out, that is almost completely missing from the corpus — note I say almost because such a regard does rarely occur amidst the forested plains and craggy peaks of the plentitudinous narrational terrain. In V it occurs, to my best recollection, exactly once, at the bottom of the ocean in a submarine. This would suggest a ratio of pages to an implied 1st person voicing of oh, about 1000:1. Again, this is not a big deal, unless your Hunter Thompson, but if you’re Peder Sjogren, say, this isn’t going to happen ever. Indeed, why [[[[you]]]] might ask, is this even worth wasting [[[our]]] time with? Is it because the author in this case has attained mythic dimensions for reclusiveness, thus making any presentation of a self even in the form of an implied I/Thou relation more noteworthy than say, a certain compulsive Irish fingernail-trimmer with poor vision and a scary-looking secretary? Nah, probably not. Is it because the underlying hallucinatory programme is such that attempting such a relation, even while it is technically feasible — after all, it is not unheard of to have the connection have a perfecly civil conversation with you the consumer as the walls start to pulsate and miniature heat lightning arcs across the ceiling, but then there is the messy business of having to talk you down as the trip progresses — and the programme here is too important to have to also hold [[[[your]]]] hand, innit? Truth be told, I don’t have the answer. All I know is it’s a damn shock when it occurs, and it does this time on page 666. The exact details I leave to your imagination, I will only say it involves a form of yes, trans-species relations (eyeball rolls from readers exposed to a previous post of mine on this topic). One more observation, germane to the discussion actually, is that the moment can best be described as slapstick (those animals do the darndest things) and as far away from the solemnity of the submarine in V as possible. So what’s with that? We get recognition for watching the cartoons? (Oh, the entire book is a cartoon?).
The real point of this post actually, is to ecourage fellow travellers to maintain vigilance on the point of the narrative regard, and with respect to same, cite any sightings.
- Mark Plakias
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