Article: Thomas Pynchon's `Against the Day' weighs in: Jokey, dense, 1,085 pages.

Byline: Carlin Romano

"Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon; Penguin Press ($35)

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Marriage requires commitment.

Building a pyramid requires commitment.

Thomas Pynchon requires commitment.

You can take that last item two ways (we're not constructing a syllogism here), as the ingenious, madcap author of "Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), "V.'' (1963) and other mindfrazzling modern classics might gloss it.

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