To say that Pynchon is for or against just about anything is a simpleton's mistake. If Pynchon were that banal we wouldn't be here. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote: > To be either for or against imaginary numbers, or quaternions to stick to the text, is a category mistake.