> > > >Notice the number of fat or at least pudgy Pynchon characters: Lardass Levine, >Meatball Mulligan, Benny Profane. And when we get to it on the GRGR, we >should say something about Slothrop trying to whip those fat cells into shape! > >Don Larsson, Mankato State U(MN) > > A-and could Dumpster Villard or Teddy Bloat be other than fat? -jm