So...when do we tear the shrinkwrap off the IV group read?

[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
  . . .
>I want to ask the P-List—or at least the part of the P-List that got
>down this far—does Thomas Pynchon read more like a passage out of "The
>Ambassadors" or "Farewell, My Lovely?" Think about analogous passages
>in Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland and Against the Day. I
>mean, like— beachtownflytrap, fer chirsakes. . .

Nuts. I have to read the text in order to figure 
out the P-List posts which often run in all directions.
I prefer to stick to the text at hand--no wiki, no intro no GR, etc.