ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

You want "rounded" charecters driving a book's plot, read Proust. Again, Pynchon has never had a problem using cartoons: "A Road-Runner Cartoon in blank verse", "I'm Blood!"---"I'm Vato!"--- too many more to mention. He embraces the cartoon sensibility. If you don't want to, read someone else.
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From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> At 8:09 PM +0100 11/1/06, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
"Rounded"  (fleshed out)  characters can end up driving a narrative, flat ones get driven by the plot or theme or something else.  Rounded characters are built on their emotions and motives (I think) and Pynchon doesn't usually go there in much depth;  he has other  places and things to visit.