Pointsman's Fear

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Henry M wrote:  Marvy is the only wholly unsympathetic Pynchon character 
that comes to
my mind. Look what happens to him! A-and he's a Merican, not some
personification of Nazi evil.
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Isn't Marvy pretty low on Their totem pole?  I don't think Pynch takes 
anything about Marvy seriously, as he does Weissman and Pointsman.  Marvy 
is a bufoon and a puppet, a true cartoon;  a low-level thug, all brawn, 
no brains.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org