Rocketmen and Wastelands

[David Casseres]

On 10/28/06, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > 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!"

Yes, I've done the same thing numerous times and it always pays off.
One of my favorite ways of rereading Pynchon.