Nice quote. I had to read that twice through before I convinced myself it wasn't Douglas Adams from some alternate universe version of H2G2. Maybe I'd like Pynchon after all, for some reason I've always been a little intimidated.

I didn't think of that before you said it. Yeah, I think he and Vonnegut sometimes don't get the credit for being really funny because they are more accepted as literary/scholarly, or at least that's not the impression you get if you haven't read them.