Momentum

Much to do under the pouring icy cold rain, so I'm cheating and taking a car. Perhaps walking will be possible later.
Getting some traction in Pynchon's Against the Day; good thing, as it's about 1100 pages long. Geeze. Besides the description of Rome rising and falling, why does anyone need to write such a huge tome? Long ago, in Cervantes's time, they wrote at length, too, but it was topnotch material...