while I go along with a lot of this, I personally find Pynchon a lot more fun than Adams. Adams is more like Eeyore. Pynchon is like, well, somebody familiar enough with Eeyore's arguments and who likes him enough to jolly him out of it. -- Yippy dippy dippy, Flippy zippy zippy, Smippy gdippy gdippy, too! - Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")