Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

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Thank God for Robin. Covers things no one else has the guts, or the ability, 
to tackle.

> My responses will consist mainly of cheap potshots, political
> broadsides having zero relevance to the passage in question, fart
> jokes,  ad hominem attacks on a given P-lister's pathetic sex life and
> malignant bodily odors, flames both bellicose and sophomoric, obscure
> references to books no one really wants to read, genealogical charts
> designed by Professor Irwin Corey and musicological references
> provided by Lord Buckley. There will be a forty-page essay [with
> footnotes] on nose-picking as signifier in TRP's early work that
> expresses avuncular concern as to why the poor boy feels the need to
> gross us out in the first place. In general, this will be one
> prolonged thread-crap, intended to divert from any potential deeper
> reading of the text, generally sounding like the work of a petulant 14
> year old with the soul of "Ted" Kaczynski. I will do everything in my
> power to ram the S.S. P-List into the Santa Monica Pier during a taco-
> eating contest in the rain.
>
> No need to thank me in advance.
>


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