I'm using _An Account of the Singular Peregrinations of Dr Diocletian Blobb among the Italians, Illuminated with Exemplary Tales from the True History of That Outlandish And Fantastical Race_ for escape reading when I need a break from _Existentialist Sheriff_. John - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l