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

[Rich Clavey]

terrance terrance <terrorence at hotmail.com> wrote:    A 1,000 page Shaggy dog allegory will disappoint most readers.
   
  Yep, most definetely most.

Where is the Humanity in his talking dogs?
   
  It is in their, its, human-ness
  
Are his characters simply a snarl of concepts and realites?
   
  No.

Concepts? Universal concepts? Particular ones?
   
  They are there.
  
Do his concepts as characters have personal and private thoughts, personal 
and private lives?
   
  Yes.

Or has privacy been erased?
   
  Nope.

Do P's characters have a core, a being, a consciousness that renders them 
unlike anyone else.
   
  Yes.
  
Do his characters have American dreams?
   
  Yes.

Or are they simply animals on an Orwellian stage?
   
  Nope.

Do they have and do they produce deep emotional responses?
   
  I think you got it right there yeppers.
   
  z.

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