VL--IV Passivity, more active thoughts

malignd at aol.com malignd at aol.com
Tue Jan 6 21:19:51 CST 2009


Whose characters are more carefully constructed and come through more 

> vividly than Pynchon's? In what way?  Examples, please? 
Read any one of the the small volumes of short stories by Alice Munro, to offer one of hundreds of examples.


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On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Michael Bailey wrote: 
 

> Whose characters are more carefully constructed and come through more 

> vividly than Pynchon's? In what way?  Examples, please? 
 

Uh, the narrator of À la recherche du temps perdu? M. Swann? By virtue of deep empathy with and articulate expression of their emotional turmoil? 
 

http://tinyurl.com/6vxqyg 



 




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