V.V.(1+2) Chapter One: Call For Conclusions

[cj hurtt]

sure.
first of all, im in over my head. so sorry for any lackluster hosting from
my end and thanks for all the great info you people put out.

moving along, i was thinking about the charecter o' benny profane. this lead
to thinking about pynchons use of the schmoe. the all around joe yoyo kind
of person that we as readers are supposed to connect with and root for. the
everyman so to speak. but then i got to thinking of the over romaticization
of the common folk. do the learned and the wealthy like to live vicariously
through people like profane? slumming on a literary level? you can see
something similar in the work of faulkner. what does the average joe/joan
think of this?
there is also the added problem of defining average.

as for chapters one and two themselves...
the characters seem very disconnected from one another, as well as
themselves. they do things and interact...hell benny is even taken in..but
it just has a weird feel to it. dissasociated, like the people in david
lynch movies. i dont know if pynchon did this intentionally,,,keeping the
theme of in/animate or not. maybe i'm reading stuff that aint there. i dont
know.