Pynchon and the current situation

[Otto]

Douglas Lannark: "Rocketman is above all that shit"

[drinking heavier, sleeping less, chain-smoking, feeling in some way he'd
been taken for a sucker. pp. 21, 25

[For the first possible time he is hearing American as it must sound to a
non-American. p. 256

["Stay in the Zone long enough and you'll start getting ideas about Destiny
yourself." p. 362

[cardboard posters of Der Feind hört zu. p. 433

["You aren't angry. You really aren't" "Rocketman is above all that shit,
Emil." p. 438

[Rocketman! Spaceman! Welcome to our virgin planet. We only want to be left
in some kind of peace here, O.K.? p. 438

[Oh boy, what a sad story, listen cunt, you ain't the only one's ever
suffered-you been out there lately? p. 445

[Each plot carries its signature, Some are God's, some masquerade as God's.
This is a very advanced kind of forgery. But still there's the same meanness
and mortality to it as a falsely made check. p. 464

[Slothrop was a good try at a moderate solution, but in the end it's always
the Army, isn't it?  p. 615

Peace

Douglas

(i.A. Otto)