The Anti-Labyrinth/Henry James/Pynchon

[davemarc]

At 04:46 AM 6/13/96 +0200, hag wrote:
>Richard Romeo writes:
>
>> Vineland seemed to explicitly define the good guys and the bad guys 
>> unlike the earlier works. 
>
>Well, Brock is a bad guy and Zoyd, I suppose, a good guy - but beyond 
>that? Is Frenesi a bad guy? Is Prairie, who has the same fetish for men 
>in uniforms as her mom and grandmother? Come to think of it, how 
>_bad_ is Brock?
>
Seemed to me that there was a lot of tension between conditioning and free
will at work.  Also, love seemed to play a role, too.

davemarc