What Pynchon wrote?

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Why is this reasonable? I never do if I'm coming to a novel for the
> first time. Some idiots who don't know how to introduce a text always
> manage to give stuff away; they're obsessed with their own 'learning'. I
> never read reviews until afterwards (novel, play or film). If I read a
> review (and usually, in this country, they're pretty awful) I read the
> final paragraph to know what the writer thinks, their overall judgement:
> it kind of matters in a roundabout way if it helps me locate that
> reviewer, and I often go out and buy a book when it's been trashed.

OK, good point. So let's say that some readers will skip the Foreword,
some will read it or part of it, some will read only the Foreword, some
will read the Foreword and half of the novel and so on ... the
possibilities are probably not  equal to the number of readers but could
be.