AtD character quiz (spoilers)

[Ya Sam]

In retrospect.


As I take it, nobody guessed which character doesn not appear in AtD. Now 
it's fun to read the comments.

from the blog 'Critical Mass':

Win a Free Copy of the Pynchon

Post the correct answer to this quiz in the comments section and we'll mail 
you a copy of Thomas Pynchon's upcoming novel, Against the Day.

Which of these characters does not appear in Against the Day?

a) a whore named Vaseline
b) a whore named Fame
c) a dog named Pugnax
d) a hitman named Deuce Kindred and a sidekick named Sloat Fresno
e) a group of Gurkhas
f) a balloonist named Chick Counterfly
g) a balloonist named Darby Suckling
h) a talking lightning bolt
i) Happy Jack La Foam
j) cricketer C.B. Fry
k) a theosophist named Madame Eskimoff
l) Austrian Archduke Ferdinand
m) Clive Chrouchmas
n) a shady magnate named Scarsdale Vibe and his offspring, Colfax ('Fax) and 
Cragmont
o) an anarchist named Webb Traverse
p) Barry Neublay
q) Police Inspector Vance Aychrome
r) Derrick Theign -- codename "Good Shepherd"
s) Vibe sidekick, Foley Walker
t) a reindeer named Otis
u) Luca Zombini
v) Alonzo Meatman
w) professor J.M.E. McTaggart of Cambridge, England
x) Root Tubsmith
y) Viktor Mulciber
z) an Uyghur troublemaker named Al Mar-Fuad.

http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/11/win-free-copy-of-pynchon.html#links

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