Pynchon/Roth/Bellow/Updike on the 1960s

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut  wrote:
>
> counterexamples) creating characters so round that the question of whether their roundness >can contain the deepest historical judgment of our loss of
> human roundness cannot be fully dealt with. How do you create the roundest fictional >characters

>
> McEwan might think Pynchon does not, in general, get the world down, get people down, as he tries to, as


I've got "and your bird can sing" mania really bad this week -- so of
course your comments about people being round and getting people down
lead me back to that song...

if your prize possessions, start to get you down...I'll be round...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKxtiha3vcE
....really nice little slideshow!


-- 
 - "He's a king mixer.  He hates group unity, so he gets everyone at
it." - Paul, about his grandfather