Concepts as characters

[Jordan Fink]

M&D was driven by the repeating theme of stacked systems that had
emergence properties that were unpredictable for the initial builder:

Leyden jars and piles
the disks of the torpedo
the states forming a great serpent in Ben Franklin's cartoon
Lo, lamination abounding
stacks of broadsides
sandwiches
the duck (a french invention that far surpases it's design)
america itself
bread
the golem
french burried disks in the ground
oolie alone the line
swordmaking

over and over and over again we see this pattern until we see that the
book itself is this.

From: "terrance terrance" <terrorence@[omitted]>
To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
Subject: RE: Concepts as characters (was: Why don't women read Pynchon?)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:36:50 -0500



What concepts drove M&D?

Also, do concepts differ from themes and ideas?

Also, are concepts in the text or are they something readers bring to the
party?

Is it the case that males bring more concepts to their readings of texts
than females?

Can a novel have fully developed  characters and themes and ideas and
concepts?

Is Ender a concept or a character?

Is Ray Bradbury's story "There will come soft rains" (no human characters) a
concept driven tale?

Also, is carl Barrington of P's TSI a concept character?