At 01:53 PM 9/22/03 +0000, you [Dedalus] wrote: >No, Terrance. Your original assertion was this: > > > > If the vast majority of readers agree that Brock is a very bad guy, > > > isn't it likely that Pynchon created a bad guy in Brock Vond? To me, that quotation looks like a question, not an assertion. Mary Krimmel