Pynchon's long-awaited, 1,000-page novel Against the Day was nominated for a scene involving a spaniel that ends: "Reader, she bit him." Debut novelist Iain Hollingshead wins Bad Sex prize Associated Press Thursday November 30, 2006 Guardian Unlimited http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1960617,00.html Not for the four-corners scene!