TRTR - Chapter VI au revoir
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 16:07:09 CDT 2011
> Despite the constant ragging and fragging of Otto, do we not end up
> liking the guy, picturing him as fairly presentable and reasonably
> intelligent, trying to make his way through a confusing but
> interesting world?
No. I like the character a great deal, but not because he is a good
man or a nice person or a bright and misunderstood guy or a fool
caught in the vice of modern forces. He is a jackass. I don't much
like jackasses.
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