"You are the proud grandfather, of course."
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Merle must look older than I realized. Although how am I expected to visualize any character when Pynchon mostly doesn't care to give a detailed description of most of them?! Usually Pynchon is, "This character is named Slovenbraut Tinkydorf. You can imagine what they looked like with that name, right?!"
Although Randolph is just a kid, basically, and to young people, even thirty year olds seem like old farts.
With all the controversy surrounding the podcast Reply All, and after having listened to it for years, I only recently saw what PJ and Alex looked like and I have to say: "I'm terrible at picturing what people look like based on their voices." So far off. Not even close. Never would have guessed!
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