VL-IV (14): Round vs. Flat

[rich]

he damn sure had to make up for what happens to those poor kids in GR
;)--Ilsa, Greta's murders of Jewish children, Pointsman's "spermy bed"
(insert simpsons-like shudder), Bianca

post-GR kids in Pynchon are treated "different"--Pitt/Pliny, Prarie,
those Zombini young'uns, yes?

rich

On 3/27/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Pynchon might have changed a lot of diapers before Vineland was
>> published, but the year it was published marked the year of his
>> marriage and within that year (or the next) his son Jackson was born.
>
> A probable indication that the subject was on his mind, not in the
> realm of character motivation while working on a book but in the realm
> of his own motivation.
>
>