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The folks over at HyperArts have long maintained the best online Thomas Pynchon resource site around (including a indeces to all his “major” novels), but they’re also unveiling a full-blown Wiki site to coincide with the author’s upcoming Against the Day. The site should be an excellent way for hungry readers poring over their first editions to collaborate and try to figure out what the hell the dude’s trying to say. If you haven’t already pre-ordered, first, what are you doing with your life? And second, go here.

Update: Got my advance copy of the novel yesterday and eagerly devoured the first 80 pages last night. Superb. Bonus: Pynchon writes what may be the earliest historical “yo’ mama” joke, uttered by the Archduke Franz Ferdinand hisself on the South Side of Chicago circa 1893: “‘Your Mama, she plays third base for the Chicago White Stockings…Indeed, she is so fat, that to get from her tits to her ass, one has to take the “El”! Tried once to get into the Exposition, they say, no, no, lady, this is the World’s Fair, not the World’s Ugly!’”

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