What Pynchon wrote?

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, at the risk of inspiring raucous laughter ... I've wasted
> some time today (you were all having such fun) thinking about how the
> Foreword hangs together as a piece. In my view (no apology for being
> predictable) it functions as a Pynchon-text always does function, by
> asking us how we know what we think we know, by interrogating the way in
> which writing tells us, or would like to tell us, what there is to know
> (about). What follows is necessarily sketchy, and I'm not holding my
> breath.

I'm a distracted thinker. I grew up in a small apartment in the south
bronx where people got murdered around the block and buildings burned
down weekly, there were 13 of us in one space. i could read shakespeare,
strum my guitar, watch tv and my little brothers, do my homework and
talk on the phone while i dreamed about a better life and a room of my
own.  I had a child when I was still a boy, went to college at one of
the toughest universities in the US when I was just 17 and raised my
child and myself before I could drive a car. I can do three jobs at once
and make jokes and take them too.  


sorry but this is the kind of remark your post invites. 

ok, on to the other stuff you said.