Character (WAS: COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board)

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... it is certainly also true that we can take TRP at his word:

Pynchon is night unto Mucho Maassive in this regard, he at any rate
undersells himself, though one might suggest he does this as a
distraction, a feint.  It's not entirely implausible that he
discourages Hollander in that letter precisely becaues The Dude may
have come all too close to the truth of the matter, in some way or
another, though that speculation is entirely my own ...

> his tropes and tricks are for the purpose of the story.

Which is ...?

> They are tools used just to say what he hopes to say.

And again ...