Happy 70th Birthday Thomas Pynchon!

[Monte Davis]

Ya Sam wrote:

> According to the Zone time, it's May 8. And we, good old Europeans, 
> are raising tankards with foaming ale to the health of Thomas Ruggles 
> Pynchon, the greatest living author.
> Many happy returns!

....

>
> http://www.welt.de/kultur/article856897/Thomas_Pynchon_Shakespeare_der_Popkultur.html 
>

I'm not equipped to read this, but as I grow older I find it easier to 
see what Pynchon has in common with Shakespeare, and Dickens, and Dante.

All give me a sensation of *plenitude*  --  of an imagined world as 
bursting and conglomerate as this one with baroque curlicue, expected 
and unexpected connection, baggage of history and portent. And plenitude 
over my lifetime now, too, because they give me something new whenever I 
return.

What shall we do (what shall we do) with all this useless beauty?

Thank you, Mr. Pynchon, happy birthday, and many more.