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

[John Bailey]

I don't read Hector as a villain at all - a foil, maybe. But he's too
likeable, and after the initial set-up is as much a buffoon as Zoyd is. They
complement each other in that Odd Couple way.

Vond is a villain proper, but I recall feeling a fondness even for his
sidekick. VL isn't a novel of good/evil, I think. I'm sure it operates on a
very different logic to those gnostic readings of GR.

As for Hector's surname, I'm deeply ashamed to say that my first thought was
of Daphne Zuniga who played Michael J. Fox's girlfriend in "Family Ties"
(1982-84). Yep, I was a child of the Tube. And VL is all about family.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
>
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