Pynchons Problem

[alice wellintown]

>
> For 3 guys of different backgrounds and race to mingle and converse
> friendly-like -- darn it, 'twas revolutionary and inspiring as Twain
> meant it to be and inserting a subtext onto these dudes is to ignore
> almost all that is decent and true and good!
>
> It's even an insult to homo-eroticism, for that matter.

Three? What three? For a time there are four men on the raft, but
there are never three men on the raft. Several times there is only
Jim, left alone. Painted blue like to look like a sick A-rab, Jim is
frightened and depressed and alone when he thinks Huck has been
killed. Huck trick Jim and abuses Jim, but after a while, after Jim
tells Huck how he feels about beating his daughter and such, and after
the two argue about cosmology, Huck does temper his white supremecies.
But, in the end, he can only view Huck as white on the inside. So Jim
is an exceptional negro and not like the others who are black through
and through.