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Thomas Pynchon is a great inventor of names. From "The Crying of Lot 49" alone, we have:

Oedipa Maas

Wendell "Mucho" Maas

John Nefastis

Stanley Koteks

Mike Fallopian

...and so forth. Granted, the humour in "Lot 49" is a little more juvenile than, say, "Against the Day".

parent cgh 10 years ago

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