Gore's rosebud

[Craig Clark]

Foax -

Vidal does work quite a nice Pynchon joke into _Duluth_ (which I am 
embarrassed to admit is the only Vidal novel I've ever read), where 
moving the thumbtack pinned to a map of Duluth which represents 
the location of the thumbtack-shaped spaceship that has landed in 
Duluth causes the ship to move. This is attributed to "a lesser-known 
corollary of the laws of gravity known as Pynchon's corollary" or 
some such.



Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"