On 3: "A screaming came across the sky." The great Pynchon novel "Gravity's Rainbow" (and a lot of other contemporary literature - Ballard, Vonnegut, to name a couple) is available for download at the Open Library ebook lending project, accessible to anyone who registers (for free) - 14 days lending period (you will need to install adobe digital editions) - Pynchon at the lending library - http://tinyurl.com/pygtmxn - etesien

[image: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me... - Tristram Shandy 1761 ed.] - etesien