VL-IV 1: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle [plain text]

[Robin Landseadel]

I get the feeling that many of the characters in Vineland are
based on people TRP has known, seeing as he's so
specific about time and place. Remember as well that in "Slow
Learner" OBA points out that all good "fiction" is based on life
experience. Hector is one of the funniest and "roundest" of all of
Pynchon's villains, though Pynchon's signaling of comic adversaries
Tweety Bird and Sylvester gets down to cases.

On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:31 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I suppose there's always the possibility that Hector is based on a  
> real-life person.