If you wanted to spend a year

[Mark Kohut]

reading (rereading) Pynchon, you could do it
at under 95 pages a week. 4904 (per current editions),
not counting the uncollected story and non-fic pieces.
Counting those, still under a 100 fer sure

The Janeites reread Austen. 3120 pages

Proust's masterwork is fewer (than Pynchon's oeuvre) @4211

Shakespeare is @1360 in the definitive Arden edition, just text (with no
footnotes or intros, etc.).  1800--1950 pages or so in the larger CollectedWorks
editions with all of the supplementary material (but much bigger
pages than P, or A or P.
A year of celebrating Shakespeare is happening. 400 years (since death)
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l