IVIV: Sportello's integrity

[David Morris]

I think Larry is more or less likable because he's more or less an
underdog who keeps rolling with the punches.  He's yet another in the
Pynchon line of Schlemiels:  Benny, Slothrop, Zoyd...

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> About the only thing my IV re-reads made me think about is that Pynchon, somehow, manages it to present to us Larry Sportello as a, more or less, likable character. Why is that?