M & D Group Read alone.

[Mark Kohut]

Chap 29. p. 293 More on bugs and clothes just learned but ain't this a
grand joak about "that new man", the American ?...."American bugs, who so
much resent being brush'd off Human Surfaces,
that they will bite anyone for even approaching." .....Reminds me in an
absolutely acausal way, in the contingency of a lifetime of
random (overall) reading and nonrandom if unknown remembering, chance and
some kind of necessity I say trivially, of a part of the opening
of DeLillo's *Americana:*

"The next most important thing to find out [when one enters a room full of
people] was the degree of hostility. This was relatively simple. All you
had to do
was look at the people who were looking at you as you entered....One long
glance.....Roughly three out of four were hostile."

But back to Pynchon, think about his other insect/bug jokes....that manger
scene.....the Beetles allusion to Darwin stuff later in M & D. ...Anyone
written an
article on that?.....NO?, well,  remember reader, that though thou art
(often) less than human and being an animal might be a compliment, just the
same one is
just another of nature's smallest Darwinians.