Official Pynchon List Quote Of The Year 2000

[Dave Monroe]

Mr. Mackin, meet Messrs. Habermas and Purdy.  Paul, Jurgen, Jedediah ...
recommended (well, not so much the Purdy, if at all, but ...) reading
for you, Paul ...

Habermas, Jurgen.  The Theory of Communicative Action,
    Volume I: Reason and the Rationalization of Society.
    Trans. Thomas McCarthy.  Boston: Beacon, 1985.

Purdy, Jedediah.  For Common Things: Irony, Trust and
    Commitment in America Today.  New York: Knopf, 1999.

To quote a coworker, mackin', snackin' a-and packin' ... let me know ...