>>>You're changing Pynchon's phrase, replacing his passive sentence structure with your own an active sentence construction. Call my interpretation what you will, at least I'm dealing wth the text Pynchon wrote, I'm not rewriting it to make my point.<<< www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/15/150418.shtml http://www.thewax.com/simpsonsvinyl/28_pol.html