One thing odd that jumped out at me about BE is, so far I noticed two references to Steely Dan songs: Doctor Wu, and The Fez, and in both cases Pynchon got the titles wrong by adding a bunch of words to them. "Are you with me Doctor Wu" and "Aint never gonna do it without the Fez on". Rich - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l