Unabombast, Festering Manifesto
Daniel Stein
stein at magma.geol.ucsb.edu
Wed Sep 20 17:11:17 CDT 1995
It couldn't be Pynchon - no one who writes that well could blather on for
nearly a hundred pages writing with (according to K. Sale):
> the leaden language and stilted diction, the fondness for sociological
>jargon and >psychobabble, and the repeated use of "we argue that" and "we
>now discuss" and the >like, (that) make it certain that this was written
>by someone whose writing style, and >probably whole intellectual
>development, was arrested in college
Daniel J. Stein {; < 0> stein at magma.geol.ucsb.edu
Geological Sciences http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~stein
University of California (805) 893-8130 (voice)
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-2314 (fax)
...In the country of the bland, the one odd man is king.
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