Newt, Systems, etc......

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

Thanks, Jan.  I appreciate your comments and certainly agree on a number 
of counts.  For one, I think it was/is inevitable that things get--oh, 
how should I say--messy?  Not only in the context of my half-baked ideas, 
but in speaking of Pynchon's work at all.  You wonder why he's a 
reclu--nah, it's very simply, rilly.

Let me add an apology for any of my more aggressive and/or offensive 
posts to this list.  I have always enjoyed the exchanges here and have 
learned more than I might ever learn in any course.  This is also great 
practice simply in whatever is meant by "academic life," and it is 
particularly valuable as exam preparation.  I'd actually unsubscribed 
one day (not out of anger) because I was spending too much time here and 
thought I should be reviewing 24 hours a day.  But then I realized how 
foolish and unrealistic that was.  And besides, when I woke up and jacked 
in, I realized that my favorite pastime was no longer available to me and 
so I subscribed again immediately.  

Thanks to everyone for helping, encouraging and "correcting" me in my 
attempts to enter this community of accomplished and impressive scholars.

I am sincere in this.  It's hard to expres stuff like this without 
sounding like a sap.


Bonnie