Buzz-men, plexity and mombly

[Ya Sam]

Yes, it seems that 'plexity' is Pynchon's invention is based on 'plex', 
meaning something entangled. I still cannot find a conspicuous example of 
'mombly', however I did find the actual use of 'Buzzmen'! Your answer seems 
to have awakened in me some serendipitous streak. 'Buzzman' is  an old slang 
word for a pickpocket:

From: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 576
       Vol. 20 No. 576., Saturday, November 17, 1832


Classification of Rogues._

  Housebreakers              _Vulgus_--Cracksmen, pannymen.

  Highwaymen & }                     Grand-tobymen.
  Footpads     }                     Spicemen.

  Coiners                            Bit-makers.

  Utterers of base metal             Smashers.

  Pickpockets                        Buzzmen, clyfakers, conveyancers.

  Stealers of goods and money from } Sneaks.
    shops, areas, &c. &c.          }

  Shoplifters                        Shop-bouncers.

  Snatchers of reticules, watches, } Grabbers.
    &c. &c. from the person        }

  Horse and cattle stealers          Prad-chervers.

  Women and men who waylay         }
    inebriate persons for the      } Ramps.
    purpose of robbery             }

  Receivers of stolen goods          Fences.

  Forgers                            Fakers.

  Embezzlers                         Bilkers.

  Swindlers of every description,  } Macers, duffers, and ring-droppers.
    among which are                }

  Stealing from carts and          } Dragsmen.
    carriages of all kinds         }



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>For "plexity" try thias thread at Language Log (which notes another
>appearance in M&D at p. 505):
>
>http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001923.php
>
>Consider also AtD p. 551, in old Bruges:
>
>"...shadows that could not always be correlated with actual standing
>architecture, folding and pleating ever inwardly upon themselves..."
>
>Remember, this is the writer who ties you up on the first page of GR with
>"No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive _knotting
>into_..."
>
>He's just become less tangled, more bent and layered :-)
>

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