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[Ted Friedman]

Well, as long as the Pynchon list's getting a little more active, I was
wondering if anybody could give me some good tips on how to work my way
through _Gravity's Rainbow_ for the first time. I'm about 50 pages in, and
have found it really tough sledding. Would one of the readers' guides
help, or just bog me down further? Should I be trying to follow everything
closely as I go along, or just let it wash over me and figure some time
I'll read it again and figure out what was really happening? 

-- Ted Friedman