VLVL Prairie and DL

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> Likeable characters all, they're not the idealised personifications of sugar
> and spice that some here insist.

I agree. Idealist thinking about characters is satirized. Like the way
Zoyd, the big idealist,  thinks about Hector. (29) 

But Pynchon's characters, on one level , function as personifications. 

As for liking the characters, yeah ...  I like them all, but that's not
because they are likeable. Well, Prairie is a cool kid and I-24 and all
the young people in the book. 

But I  like Hobbes. I like him because he pays in cash and he helping
out a lot of people who lost their jobs and credit. 

I don't like Zoyd. He's fun. But that Hotel scene, dropping the can and
dinging the surfer's plank is simply unforgivable. And I still can't
accept his plan to go to a logger bar dressed as a lady logger to piss
the bad ass working class men off. That's unforgivable too.