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David Morris, a few back this morning. Should had noted that beside the quote. There are cartoons in Pynchon, sure: he's the world's biggest road-runner fan, what did you expect?
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From: "Daniel Julius" <daniel.julius at gmail.com>
> >
> > 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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