Pynchon on his characters

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> While Hollander's insisting on the political dimension in Pynchon's work
> cannot be praised high enough, his monomanic dogmatism is really difficult
> to handle. Perhaps Thomas "every weirdo on the planet seems to be on my
> wave-length" Pynchon did realize this from early on. Just a guess --

The first, and perhaps most, significant thing here is, Pynchon
bothered to respond at all.  It's not unreasonable to assume that
there were Reasons for that ...