ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[Monte Davis]

> I do rather disagree with the contention that AtD draws the  reader  
> INto story. Relative to GR perhaps it does.  But making any real  
> effort at drawing the reader IN, making him  care very much about  
> what happens to  the characters,  isn't  IMO the way  Pynchon works.

By and large, no -- but sometimes I think it's creeping up on him. Or me.

In M&D, I wanted those two to appreciate what their friendship was becoming
more than I'd wanted anything for P characters before, even Roger & Jessica.
In AtD, Cyprian and Dally move me as deeply as most  of the central
characters in contemporary fiction; more than any of the Traverse siblings,
who are given less "autonomy" in their round of Follow Four Fates. Yashmeen
gets very little interiority at all -- not that there's anything wrong with
that.