<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><A href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/situations-matter-sam-sommers/">http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/situations-matter-sam-sommers/</A></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">I haven't read this book and don't plan to........but the summary opened this thought</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">re Pynchon's characters: </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">With works that are so much about the situation of people in History; with P's way</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">of packing extra notions into all he can, is it fair to say his characters are given us,</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">largely, M & D maybe the major exception, situationally per the above? </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Or,as some modernist writer wrote around the time of AtD, I think: the old stable</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">ego of character is gone......................<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></div></div></body></html>