Can Pynchon write (yet)?

[pynchonoid]

Thanks, Paul for the oblique reminder that it's a good
idea to focus on what Pynchon's actually doing in his
writing and enjoy it on its own terms rather than fret
about something that's perceived not to be there. 

Interesting how the ruling metaphors for fully
developed characters here are all about painterly
surfaces, as you note - "cartoonish", "fleshed-out"  -
and do not speak to the emotional and mental dimension
where a character in a book can somehow come alive in
a reader's mind.  I think it may prove difficult to
find a Pynchon character, however briefly described,
that Pynchon does not illuminate with at least one
insight that manages to do this.

Echoing Paul, is "cartoon" really the best word to
describe a character like George Washington in M&D?
Pynchon puts him together something like a puzzle,
including in the characterization a number of traits
that play with and against, invertmand subvert a set 
of George Washington datapoints that a lot of American
general readers of literary fiction carry around in
our heads. 


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