Picasso and Pynchon

[Robert Bruno]

I found it interesting that someone compared TP to PP.  This actually 
increased my understanding of what TP is doing in his writing, and 
basically caused me to reconsider my statement that TP's portrayal of 
"flat" characters is a weakness.  Far from a weakness, TP's relentless 
stabs at the the status quo of realism is (or was) a call to revolution 
for writers, I assume. V.  must have had as much a liberating effect on 
the literary world as Picasso's early abstract works had on the artists of 
his period.  

Rob -- still learning