LowLands Author:Thomas Pynchon Dennis Flange, Pynchon's protagonist, is an unhappily married former "competent [naval] communications officer" who is quite unceremoniously thrown out of his house by his practical wife Cindy because of his poor choice of friends and lack of interest in his job. Dennis then stays overnight at the town dump with some of his unsavor... more »y friends; whereupon, he meets the beautiful gypsy midget Nerissa, with whom he decides to stay "for a while, at least".« less