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Great Expectations

A profane commentary on the hoopla surrounding the summer's biggest book, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

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words ring true with a couple of

more-current authors who like to

rush stuff into print every

couple of decades: Thomas

Pynchon and J. D. Salinger.

"Into our depopulated pantheon,"

said Fiedler, "we impress

Fitzgerald." And Pynchon. And

Salinger. And almost - but not

quite, thank god - anyone who

can string a couple of

self-important sentences

together.

This spring, of course, Pynchon

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