Rick,

I liked Zodiac, Snowcrash, and The Diamond Age, but Cryptonomicon was too much for me. Too long, too involved, too, well, unbelievable. I like the short, tight, cynical novels of Vance as a contrast, I will miss him.

There was a deer here that went through a school building. It panicked, jumped through the glass front doors, went clip clop down the aisle to the other end, and out through the rear exit. Perhaps Faulkner’s incident was based on a true story.