Zoyd

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark:

> Once again into the breach. 
 
You don't have do defend AtD from me. I love the book, as I've frequently 
had reason to state on this list, but I do not find it above critique. My quip
about AtD having nothing but supporting characters wasn't a critique, though.
As I said yesterday, Pynchon puts great care into his supporting characters.
This is something he has in common with David Foster Wallace, who in Infinite
Jest expressed an ambition to release these marginal characters (Wallace calls 
them "figurants") from their "mute peripheral status" (IJ, 835). Figurants
are traditionally the preterite of literature, but both Pynchon and Wallace
insist on giving them voices.
 
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