At 2:07 PM -0700 9/9/99, Bruno Nietlispach wrote: >another novel that's compared with "young" pynchon is _galatea 2.2_ >by richard powers. I'd second that. Check out _The Gold Bug Variations_ as well. Easily one of the best books I've ever read and filled with Pynchon stuff. Plus it works as a nice survey of the works of Bach and molecular biology. - st. -