Wed Nov 1 11:48:41 CST 2006

He was quoting me.

David Morris

On 11/1/06, Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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."
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> Sorry, I think I missed this; who are you quoting here?
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> Dan