Done at last.

[David Casseres]

Brian McCary sez (amidst a lot of other right-on stuff)
>If I could write a book half as good as M&D, I'd be doing that instead
>of designing medical equipment....  I'm not even sure that
>GR is as good as GR....  I found that I was reading M&D in the
>context of everything else he has written, which probably made it
>better than it would have been on it's own, but that is also a problem
>with GR.

Can't wait to reread V. and GR in the context of M&D!

>At least Pynchon has put together an oeuvre which is worth considering
>as such.  There is a trajectory to his work.

Damn right.  I've been taking a few days off to read Idoru by William 
Gibson, who is not really comparable to Pynchon but who also flies a 
trajectory, and has readers who deplore each new book for not being 
Neuromancer, or whichever previous book they consider to be his 
masterpiece.  And sure enough, Idoru isn't Neuromancer -- but then, it 
*does* have a 14-year-old heroine named Chia Pet.  I'd hate to miss it, 
and I'd sure as hell hate to miss Mason & Dixon.


Cheers,
David