summer of this spectacular
"major publishing event": Jokes
comparing it to other
best-selling, never-read tomes
(A Brief History of Time and
Foucault's Pendulum seem the
common referents) have passed
the point of cliché and
become simple truth. Here's
hoping that Pynchon epigone
David Foster Wallace adds an
essay about reading Mason &
Dixon to the paperback edition
of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll
Never Do Again. (Which we have
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