A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich

[Burgess, John]

Slothrop is most definitely a here, in the classical as well as 
generalized sense.  Heroes don't have to walk like John Wayne; 
anti-heroes don't have to mumble like Humphrey Bogart.  Heroes don't even 
have to be admirable in all they do... Oedipus is about as purely 
"heroic" as possible, but I don't think most hold him up as a model of 
edification.


Besides, if one does not see TRP as "heroic" in some form, then however 
does one find him/herself in this mailing list?