On 4 Sep 2009 at 13:17, John Carvill wrote: > Well, I was just making a cheap joke, based on the many instances of > 'pussy' in IV. Which reminds me of something that someone told me at the Malta TRP conference. He said that he didn't like the idea of Dick being a poor man's Pynchon, because this turned Pynchon into a rich man's Dick. _____________ umberto rossi