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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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bears more than a passing

resemblance to Gass himself -

was actually worth the wait (as

if anything short of a heart and

lung transplant - or Paul

McCartney's "much-anticipated"

Flaming Piece of Crap album -

could be worth that wait). Or,

if not quite worth the wait, at

least worth buying and

pretending to have read, as is

currently the case with Mason

& Dixon. But, alas, in a

rare moment of aesthetic

justice, few people - desperate

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