Fw: More Vineland--the IV read, drip, drip

[Mark Kohut]

> From the start it is HILARIOUS.....reminding us (if we need
> reminded) that TRP is at base a great COMIC writer, in more
> than one sense. 
> 
> Zoyd's lazy, slacker [unmotivated hippie] existence,
> hunting for cereal and smokes reminds me of Benny's time
> around Norfolk at the start of V.
> 
> Does any Pynchon novel BEGIN as humourously? (GR?...but so
> darker with that screaming?)