V-2nd - Farewell to Chapter 6

[Michael Bailey]

egads, is it 7 already?  time to make the donuts...

working backward in order to work forward, Benny's sickening behavior
is not (I'd say, in my finite wisdom) just an excrescence of
post-adolescent cleverness on the part of the author, but a deliberate
and well-written depiction of the sort of failure that he's trying to
depict...

...all too well-depicted, I'd say (from my amateur viewpoint), in that
just about all our readership (and we *like* Pynchon) recoil from the
text and disavow the book...

there's a phrase in a Wayne Dyer book, or one of those guys (yes, I
read self-improvement books - in my defense, a friend put me onto that
one), where he says something like, "Don't cut off my finger, look
where I'm pointing!"

who's that drummer guy, in _Vineland_, who talks about, "That's what I
do, take the rude buffets of life and give them a beat" or something
like that?