Status Updates From Vineland

The schoolroom line was, You’ll never know enough about your body to take responsibility for it, so better just hand it over to those who are qualified, doctors and lab technicians and by extension coaches, employers, boys with hardons, so forth—alarmed, not to mention pissed off, DL reached the radical conclusion that her body belonged to herself.

Yeah, I’m done - I gave it an honest shot - and enjoyed parts of it - but I’m firmly of the belief Pynchon was tripping hard when he wrote this. This just no rhyme or reason to parts and I’m past the point in my life where I’ll slog through that.