P's genius: A plister is buried in this piece (as we have been before). Ms. Wurtzel responded

[Mark Kohut]

to me saying the oil spill can be seen as US like Slothrop through the shitflow.....
 
she responded below:
LizzieWurtzel    @MarkKohut Exactly. 7:04 PM May 23rd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to MarkKohut
 
Now she has a piece citing P's creative genius for overarching leitmotifs. 
Oil spill brings summer of discontent
The Guardian
If it were not actually happening, this oil spill would make the perfect apocalyptic leitmotif in a Thomas Pynchon work of American jeremiad. ...
 
 
If i were already a famous-enough published writer, then maybe I could get published finally!  (sorta Catch-22, V.-like joke)