Gaddis, Pynchon, both 'comic' writers--as Erik Burns has helped me--us?--focus on. But Gaddis's wit, so laconic via the narrator, as They say of English wit is much more what we have come to label snarky than Pynchon's Which is, often simply juvenile and otherwise just Falstaff-exuberant on the page. Yes? Discuss among ourselves.....