ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< The passage is a snippet of what we all know Pynchon can sustain for much 
longer and do way better, but it's a quick glimpse at his style for perhaps 
enticing those who are newbies to P. >>

this and what preceded it are plausible enough; but the other troubling point 
is that, whatever one might think marketing-wise, there's the thing itself.  
It--one must assume and to give it its best shot--is supposed to be humorous.  
Anybody laugh when they read it?