Hume and Weissmann & Pointsman

[David Morris]

Yes, but Kathryn Hume would never support your thesis that Blicero is evil 
incarnate, even in the purely abstract "fictional" mode.  If any critic 
embraces the "and/or" thesis of GR's message, she does, and well so.  Her 
balance would reject what absolutes you seem to propose.

DM

>From: 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

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