Which side is he on?

[Toby G Levy]

Yes, Terrance, nobody is saved.  Everybody knows that life sucks and then
you die.

What I see when I read Pynchon, is that there are certain characters that
seek to celebrate life, to enhance the enjoyment of life by those around
them and who generally do no harm to anyone around them.  To my way of
reading, these are the characters we are supposed to like, whose conduct
the author endorses.

Then there are the characters who impose their will on others for the
purpose of increasing their enjoyment of life AT THE EXPENSE of others,
who therefore suffer and die more miserably than they would without the
interference of the "bad" characters, who the author presents in such a
way that the normal reader would dislike. In Pynchon these "bad"
characters are usually members of the "system" whereas the "good"
characters are usually the powerless, the preterite, etc.

Toby

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