Pynchon & Bloom MTV Death Match

[Terrance]

Harry: VINELAND was a total disaster. 

Tommy: I don't guess that will stop you from putting your name on a
"Critical                   Interpretations of Vineland"  anytime soon.
Wha? 

Harry: I cannot think of a comparable disaster in modern American
fiction.

Tommy: It's POST modern, Harry. Post. 

Harry: Post This! "This piece of sheer ineptitude. 

Tommy: (Strained Captain Kirk Vocals, Reaching with 
Homer-on-Bart's-Throat Grip hands) Uh, Sccccreaming Cuuuuuuummmmmmmms

Harry: (Strained Captain Kirk Vocals too) Thisssss hope less ly hol  low
book ahhhhhh  which I red through in a maze   mmmmm   ent and dis  be 
LEEF   and 
which hhhhh  has    not    got   in    it    a
re   deeming sen tence, hardly a re dee  ming phrase  and is   im  
men   slee   dis    heart   en   ing ....  

The Paris Review Writers At Work Interviews, 9th series, p, 205