Wed Nov 1 11:39:02 CST 2006

>
> I think one of Pynchon's weaknesses is his reliance on cartoon characters
> as
> opposed to fleshed-out beings.  He can do fleshed-out, but so much of his
> writing is a form of coded message that he uses characters as symbols and
> shortchanges their humanity. And that's OK to a degree, but sometimes (as
> in
> Vineland) it goes too far, and the result is inner emptiness."

Sorry, I think I missed this; who are you quoting here?

--
Dan
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