COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Natalia:
 
> In AtD there are elaborate descriptions of technology AND of characters and their psychological 
> conflicts... That's one of the reasons the book's so thick - Pynchon focuses on both themes, and 
> emphasizes the last one a lot more than he did in GR ou V.
 
Good point, and I think you're absolutely right that Pynchon wants to have it both ways in AtD. 
Still, I'd contend that the characters in AtD are much thinner than the main characters in VL and
M&D. Lake, for instance, is but a shallow version of Frenesi.
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