It's hard to believe Thomas Pynchon wrote a sentence as bad as this one

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

The scene on page 666 is quite beastly, and that is the very point. 

Google "The Great Beast" and this is the first thing to come up.

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/gnosis/beast.html

Google "666" and the first listing leads to a wiki listing that name-checks 
Aleistair  Crowley.

Moufette, 'Pert & Reef serve to illustrate that "beastly" nature is really 
the nature of man—Crowley's point. The quality of writing in Against the
Day varies more than in any other novel by Pynchon. The scene of
Reef's unsuccessful sexual liaison with Mouffette has a kind of 
through-and-through groan-inducing badness, the likes of which we have
seen many times before in Pynchon's writing, bad puns being a speciality
of the house. After all, for DeMille young fur-henchmen can't be rowing.

P.S. for MK and the rest: I really haven't read as much of Crowley as you
might think. It's strange, because I know a great many people [more than I
would expect] who have read Weird Uncle Al's stuff through-and-through.
But all I've really read has been "The Book of Thoth" and "The Book of Lies",
only dipping my toes in his other works. I've read a great deal more about
Crowley than by Crowley himself.



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