Hume and Weissmann & Pointsman

[Terrance]

In her marvelous essay, Kathryn Hume has no difficulty
identifying the two most repulsive figures in GR, Pointsman
and Weissmann. 


Enzian's mission of building a  new mythic consciousness for
his people forces him to use such verbal powers. His status
as racial underdog wins reader sympathy, but he is likened
to a lion, emblematic animal of the Elect, a suggestion that
we should be wary of taking him as model for actions or
values. The characters who use such power without scruple,
Weissmann  and Pointsman, provoke revulsion. 


"Repetition and the Construction of Character," by Pynchon
Critic Kathryn Hume