V-2nd - 2: Who's your favorite Pynchonian character?

[Michael Bailey]

 Robin Landseadel wrote:
> The narrator [s] of "Against the Day."

something along those lines for me too...

the Mad Explicator in _Gravity's Rainbow_

the gyre'ing and gamboling explorer in whose voice Pynchon tells  _V._

the ineffably sublime narrator of _Vineland_

and so forth, sometime I might be able to clarify how the presence of
this auctorial voice (different in each book, and varying within each
as well, but of the same consistently high quality) is like having a
really intelligent, but more importantly, very compassionate and
thoughtful friend tell you a story, and how it makes all the
characters and scenes come alive...

"would you hear my voice come through the music, would you hold it
near, as it were your own..." (Robert Hunter, probably)


-- 
Yippy dippy dippy,
Flippy zippy zippy,
Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
- Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")