Lest Doug be the only person to post links to counterpunch.org, I figured I'd share this piece by Arundhati Roy, who expresses the kind of anger and frustration with the post-nuclear state of affairs that I find throughout Pynchon's writing. http://www.counterpunch.org/roy0602.html Not that I'm such a fan of counterpunch, mind you.... Sigh, d.