Where's the labor section?

[alice wellintown]

Explict physical description is not a necessay element of
characterization. Many a great author avoids it, yet manage to creat
major characters.


>> That his characters do not act like real characters is a given. VL is
>> not Christ in Concrete; Pynchon doesn't make realistic characters that
>> act and look like "real people."

>
> he doesn't get into a lot of explicit physical description, but a
> pretty good picture of Webb emerges, doesn't it?  I mean, he's one of
> the greatest unacknowledged major characters I've ever read...