From the home office in Malibu...

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TOP 5 SURPRISES IN STORE FOR READERS OF MASON & DIXON

5. Favorable cover blurb by pop group Lotion
4. Disarming introduction in which Pynchon complains that "Gravity's Rainbow"
was really a short story marketed as a novel 
3. Full 760-page text consists of phrase "All work and no play makes Tom a
dull boy" over and over again
2. "About the Author" paragraph includes home phone number
1. Three words -- It's actually done!

Best,
David