I just made Bleeding Edge the next choice for our Guys Book Club. As I was updating our web page I re-read Pynchon’s introduction to the 2nd edition of Jim Dodge’s Stone Junction, which is fun and illuminating to read again at this time. http://themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_stone.html Peter++ - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l