I'm getting my PHD in the Subversive Use Of The Comma in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and I think I see a pattern.

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

           mikebailey:
           I love this book...aww, I'm gettin' all emotional with it...

           1) 1st of all - Zoyd, slacker extraordinaire, he is like
           St Paul sez somewhere, besieged on all sides but not overcome

           2) the wedding
           3) the technology
           4) the prose...
           5) the silly songs
           6) the family reunion

           but enough about my thoughts, how do you like it so far?

See, my Mom had a shop called "Swift Dragon Mail Service" in Redway, 
just outside of Garberville, and was good friends with Judi Beri and was 
C.A.M.P.ed upon for growing gopher-purge [and being vocally political in 
a public place], so I may be in the same general class of people as Prairie 
Wheeler [possibly my favorite Pynchon Chick], as regards being second-
generation and all that, but I was there, dammit, and weirdly enough, that's 
how it went down. Oh, yes. . . . and it makes me laugh. It's really the ultimate
Simpsons episode and should be treated as such, the one Book by Pynchon 
that owes the most to Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. "A lawn savant who'll
lop a tree. . . .", really now, does it get any better than this?

And I've always had a thing for Pynchon's unique, rather limp-wristed and 
damn near constant use of the ellipsis. . . .