what to read next that isn't pynchon

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I'm still staring at this one—perched on my desk in an oversized 
"coffee-table" edition—Dante's Divine Comedy. Have some reason 
to believe it relates to what we usually read. Only read the John
Cardi translation of "Inferno" so far. My oversized comedy is of
the Longfellow translation with Dore's engravings and is marked 
with the toothmarks of—no, not Cerberus— my little cat Java.