Benny Profane is a character in a Thomas Pynchon novel, and also the pseudonym occasionally used by Richard Crasta, the India-born, New York resident author of 12 books including "The Revised Kama Sutra," "What We All Need," "Impressing the Whites," and "The Killing of an Author." The occasionally profane Benny is also the author of the short e-book "A Short History of Peckers." Benny (no relation to Ben Gay or Benny Hill) appreciates a wide range of humor, from Evelyn Waugh and absurd Monty Python skits (The Ministry of Silly Walks, and Charles Dickens spelt with two ks) to the Marx Brothers,...