Pondering Lot 49

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I always recommend The Secret Integration as the ideal place to start with
TRP. It's short, complex, fairly representative, and there are parts of it
even the man can't believe he wrote, or so he sez in the intro to Slow
Learner. Does this seem wrongheaded to anybody? 
And by the way, in the interest of dropkicking a hornet's nest worth of
pynchon-l controversy, here's a question for general delectation. Say
tomorrow you find yourself sharing an elevator, a bus, or a cinema men's room
with a familiarly tall, bucktoothed gentleman who looks unmistakably 57ish
going on 58. Big ears, too. What's your icebreaker?????
David