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

[David Casseres]

To me, Mason and Dixon are fully-rounded characters.  I have a sense
of what they looked like, what their voices sounded like.

On 11/2/06, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think your comments below are right on, but that's not necesarily a
> good thing.  What's interesting to note is that Pynchon can write
> exsquisite description of scenes in great levels of detail, but very
> rarely does he do so with his characters.  I think one of the least
> flat of his characters was Blicero, and possibly Enzian.
>
> David Morris
>
> On 11/2/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> 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.
> >
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