GUARDIAN PIECE ON 'VINELAND'

[Michael Bailey]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> P's inability or perhaps
> deliberate refusal to use characterization (a technique authors employ
> to make characters) to construct characters or figures that either act
> like real people or evoke a response from the reader that invests them
> with human sentience and so on...do we care about this
> character...James Wood...Henry James....postmodern... the end of
> character & Co.
>

hmm? somebody talking about Pynchon & characterizations?

(riveting the boilerplate)

Pynchon does character.
New method.  Unique. Very effective.  Like Cubism, in a way.  Sort of.
Can't describe adequately.  Maybe someday.
But when it dawns on you it really dawns on you...

(and so on)