Best Essay on Inherent Vice Yet

[Robin Landseadel]

	The first edition's pagination is even arranged so that the barks
	appear on one page and the title on the next after the page is
	turned, making its identification a small contest for the reader (it
	is by no means inconceivable that Pynchon, who is known to
	have worked closely with his book designer at Henry Holt,
	Raquel Jaramillo, to ensure that a particular historically
	accurate form of the ampersand appeared on the cover of
	Mason & Dixon [Cahn, Jingo], took similar pains with the page
	proofs of Against the Day to produce the James-title-quiz effect).

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I though the "Great Beast" of a lapdog on page 666 was deliberate. I  
mean, the book's just crawling with Crowley references . . .