Quail makes good points, all of which I support. I'm still wondering how the paper that Keith excerpted, about Nabokov's novels, relates to Pynchon. If the paper contains insights that are worth sharing, why not share them? ===== <http://www.pynchonoid.org/> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com