Just an idea

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ya Sam [mailto:takoitov at hotmail.com]
> "Pynchon's correspondence surfaced after his former agent (and former 
> friend) Donadio sold them in 1984, for $45,000, to a collector named Carter 
> Burden. After Burden's death two years ago, his family donated his expansive 
> literary collection -- including Pynchon's letters -- to New York's Pierpont 
> Morgan Library".
> 
> http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html
> 
>

fitting in view of the Pynchon family relationship to the house of Morgan?  

 >> >(specifically the scene involving the prostitute, a half-empty pack of
> >> >cigarettes, and a slab of pork steak).  

that reminds me of this porn book my wife and I used to like...never mind...

Pynchon goes insane and
> >> >attempts to burn down the Guggenheim.
> >>--------------------

after doing all the thinking behind all the words in his books, I suspect he's probably one of the sanest people around... I always feel more mentally fit and often more calm after reading some Pynchon, and I don't think it's by comparison <g> but because of an inbuilt quality in the prose