Pynchon on his characters

[Keith]

On May 17, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

... but Hollander is hardly  making Pynchon rather than his texts "the
event."  He's reading tehm--closley--alongside as close a reading as
is publically possible of Pynchon's personal, genalogical and
historical context ...

Yeah, I, too, lean towards the Joplin side of that argument. When  
Raquel and I were in seminary school together we used to go round and  
round about the Book of Revelation and whether or not this or that  
was Authorial intent or was about Heilsgeschichte or drug induced  
imagery or code for current events designed to get past Them for the  
sake of Us. Pick a lens any lens, and the whole damned thing coughs  
up evidence galore to support whichever. It's all part of the fun,  
but when one gets all literal about it, it becomes our favorite  
condition, the proverbial paranoia.