[Richard Ryan]

Don't remember who on the list suggested that Prairie was the "true" protagonist of VL, but her energy and sense of mission is a dramatic contrast to Zoyd's stoner-dude inept passivity: his response to every threat is to run. He can't even decide to burn down his own house - the house has to decide for him.

--- On Fri, 4/17/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: Re:
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 12:55 PM
> But for me, Slothrop is a much more
> sympathetic character.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> >
> >> Is Zoyd more enduring than Slothrop?
> >
> > Looks like he's still around at the end of Vineland.
> Slothrop's no longer
> "operational" by the time we finally leave "The Zone."
>