Rocketmen and Wastelands

[Monte Davis]

> Thanks for the quotes, well-chosen, although Pynchon's
> such a beautiful writer, sentence for sentence, it's
> hard to go wrong...

Yeah, the *truly* astonishing thing is that those weren't five Touchstone
Sentences, underlined and cherished and quoted for years. I have plenty such
with other writers. But those five turned up in a couple minutes' paging
through each book -- with countless others shimmying around them, showing
some thigh, "pick me! pick me!"