Maybe Daphne's backstory day to day would have neen more interesting

[Mark Kohut]

Don't just about all of Pynchon's sympathetic, identifiable -with
characters have a conscience?   esp the detectives?

On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> Not that far yet, but Hicks does develop a conscience- for some reason,
> besides being concerned about his weight...
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