Pynchon test

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

Andrew,

I was feeling terribly, terribly, terribly moody.  I read your message 
then all of the sudden turned happier.

But I'm not sure I'd refer to the passage as a "companion" to the one you 
noted, where the narrator speaks (somewhat) directly to the reader and 
then to the editor.  It seems rather antithetical to that passage, as the 
first admonishes the reader for sloth in the face of 
"epistemologies . . . that paranoid you so down and out . . . 
"--cowardice, inaction.  The second seems more of a wink, not nearly so 
angry and/or self-righteous.

Bonnie Lenore Surfus
University of South Florida