On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Bruno Nietlispach wrote: > once i read somewhere that the only books that are comparable with pynchons > GR (as an "encyclopedic narration") are _faust_ and _moby dick_..... Maybee also Sterne's Tristram Shandy .. And, not comparable, but kin, in a sense: Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds J. >