It makes his passing even sadder

[Joe Jack Onassis]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nascar_cancels_remainder_of_season

[Johnny The Cook]

Here was a writer who loved great, sprawling, brilliantly punctuated sentences that spread in a kind of textual kudzu across the page, yet in every phrase you got a sense of his yearning to relate and convey the importance of every least little thing.

I could not have said it better...

[Nyther]

Wait, wait, wait just a fucking minute!  You mean those people can read?  WTF!?!  Pynchon?!?  So, let me get this straight, the majority of Americans do not read novels.  But NASCAR fans are all readers of Pynchon, Wallace, and Beckett?!?  My world is crumbling beneath my feet.  So, you're telling me that the pit crews, while changing a tire are all kneeling down saying shit like, "Hey, Bob.  You get around to reading that collection of Chekhov short stories?"  "Sorry, Steve, I've been so caught up with Proust that I haven't had a moment to even look at anything else." "Proust! Don't get me started!  I had Joyce waiting in the wings for months before I could even put Proust down."