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[David Gentle]

> There might be some payoff that does not reveal itself until you're well 
> on your way in the book. The one passage in all of Pynchon's writing that 
> really made me laugh until I was sick (while on a temp job for a 
> second-tier phone company) was the section concerning the Gross Suckling 
> Infant Conference and the puke-fest that results. That joke takes a long, 
> long time to develop and unfold in all its vertiginous, alliterative 
> glory.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder why there is so much prediction of literary 
> disaster here.
Because people want it to be great enough that if it isn't they'll be 
heartbroken? So they're sheltering themselves?

Maybe?

David Gentle