Yes, Virginia

[Jeffrey Meikle]

David says:

>Well yeah.  But isn't it true that any time you take a work of literature
>and boil it all the way down, you get truisms?  My own boildown of
>Pynchon is that he is telling us Everything Is Connected.  We knew that,
>right?

Certainly a good point.  I remember once I had some second thoughts about
TRP when I realized that most of his *ideas* are a lot more accessible in
Tom Robbins' "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues."  But then I realized that
getting there is half the fun, and TRP does it with a bit more style.

Jeff