Concepts as characters (was: Why don't women read Pynchon?)

[rich]

i don't see say reef or frank for example as characters as concepts, or even
Lake

they are not easily pinned down which, imho, gives them more than the two
dimensional (no pun there, hah)

rich

On 12/1/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, someone else (Ande?) provided this link.
>
> Even if we accept that the characters are concepts, I've been disappointed
> that Pynchon didn't provide us with a protagonist (Slothrop, Oedipa) or at
> least dual protagonist (Mason-Dixon, Profane-Stencil).  The protagonist
> family, the Traverses, is overpopulated, IMO.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
>
> >I'd like to tease this thread out of "male vs. female readers," which
> IMHO
> >brings in lots of irrelevant baggage. A goosd starting point is what I
> wish
> >I'd read before: ALL (it's shoirt) of this link Laura provided:
> >
> >http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid28706.aspx
>
>
>
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