We just watch Pynchon point to it like bystanders watching the Chums of Chance 's airship float by overhead .
This is the stuff of tragedy , but since the people it sort of happens to are flimsy constructions , we do n't experience it as tragic .
We just watch Pynchon point to stuff like bystanders watching the Chums of Chance 's airship float by overhead .
This is the stuff of tragedy , but since the people it sort of happens to are flimsy constructions , we do n't experience it as tragic .