Status Updates From Against the Day

“‘You have saved my life,’ declared Ramiz, ‘and though we would both much prefer to forget the whole matter, I am now obliged, someday, somehow, to repay you. An Albanian never forgets.’ ‘Thought that was an elephant.’”

It’s great how every Pynchon novel has a section of stilted dialogue where a throwaway character mentions their ethnicity for no particular reason.