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

[Monte Davis]

> I've been 
> disappointed that Pynchon didn't provide us with a 
> protagonist 

On a first reading Cyprian, Dally, and Lew all have depths for me; never
felt I got a grip on Yashmeen.

I didn't mean to say the characters *are* concepts. I meant to say (with
Rodriguez, as I read her) that the ways in which the characters refract and
reflect and interact with concepts in the Pynchonverse provides me with many
of the provocations and satisfactions that many other writers deliver via
interactions between characters.