Prising some Character and Emotion out of Pynchon's Books

[Michael Bailey]

Robin wrote::
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>> Emotions and Characters in Pynchon
>> a personal rumination . . .
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> The correct answer is, of course, the Proverb for Paranoids #3:
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>        "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have
>        to worry about answers."
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> Character and emotion in Pynchon are nowhere near as important as humor and
> the usual plethora of paranoid systems.

I don't disagree with you.  I just have a different take.


 Campbel Morgan wrote:
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>> Chrarterization: the means authors employ to show and tell the reader
>> what characters are like.
>>
>> At its simplest: WHat characters say, do or fail to do, think, feel,
>> dream, and descriptions of the character.
>

I'm not going to get that technical.  I just want to share my emotions
about the characters.  (mostly black-boxing what-all the author did to
arouse them)