Otto's Nature

I tried my best to describe Otto’s character throughout not only by talking about his ideas and moods and philosphy a lot (it seems like he was Roger’s hero when they started out) but by a technique I stumbled upon—coupling his ‘O’ name with a lot of other ‘O’ adjectives.  For instance, right on page 1 Roger describes his friend as “Otto the Outermost.”  When he’s mysterious, like at the Mississippi River when he cuts his toe, he turns into “Otto the Opaque.”  He switches to “Otto the Open-Minded” when the two marijuana guys pick up the guys in western Iowa, but then reverts back to “Otto the Ox” for his unwillingness to budge his position when Alvah the Indian girl invites three extra guys on their trip to Montana (a possibility which never comes to be).  So there’s positive alongside the negative. In all, I’ve got at least sixteen “Otto the ________ ” places throughout the book.  Hopefully they help to form a complete picture, mostly in a playful, though thoughtful way.