On this week’s episode, Chad, Kaija, and Brian discuss chapters 6–8 of Pynchon’s Vineland, three very episodic chapters featuring Frenesi and her family history, an Italian wedding in which Deleuze & Guatari get name-checked, and a visit to the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives. Lots of fun and hijinks, some anti-binary, anti-computer sentiments, more fetishization of weapons, and some random (?) coincidences that start linking up our various characters.
This week’s music is “Frenesi” by Artie Shaw.
Next week we’ll be reading through page 191 (chapter 9) and getting deeper into Pynchon’s vision of the 60s and 80s and the never-ending conflict between the counterculture and The Man.
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