Re Lowlands and stereotypes

[Malignd]

Tangentially (barely) related to the recent discussion
about Pynchon and stereotyping:

I've been reading Elias Canetti's memoirs and came
upon this sentence, which put me in mind of the
question of P's stereotyping.  Writing about teachers
from his youth, Canetti wrote:

"They were the first representatives of what I later
took in as the intrinsic factor of the world, its
population.  They are non-interchangeable, one of the
supreme qualities in the hierarchy; their having
become figures as well takes nothing away from their
personalities.  The fluid boundary between individuals
and types is a true concern of the real writer."

Not that that settles anything ...


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