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'''a radius of annhilation that, if it could not include the ones who deserved it, might as well include himself '''<br>
Hair-raising to see Pynchon put the suicide bomber/terrorists back in the US where they also have a home; the effect also to make them (the suicide bombers over there somewhere - Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) a bit less foreign, an and to make ourselves, good US citizens, appear foreign to ourselves.: how could we, civilized Americans interested only in democracy and freedom for all, have these feelings and desires?
September 11, 2001 and its consequences seem obvious on this novel, at least in these first 95 pages.