TRP Lurking...

[Mr Craig Clark]

Henry Musikar <gravity at dcez.nicom.com> writes:

> Maybe not a new idea, but:
> Could TRP be lurking on this list, or perhaps pseudonymously 
> participating?

It's not entirely impossible, but this is probably the single biggest 
mass hallucination shared by Usenet newsgroups: that the object of 
their adulation is secretly lurking, or, even more thrilling, POSTING 
UNDER A PSEUDONYM!

I've seen it discussed on alt.movies.kubrick, on alt.music.brian_eno, 
and on alt.fan.laurie_anderson, and there's a bulletin board for 
David Bowie fans on the Outside WWW site where someone who signed 
himself David and did not include an e-mail address thanked his 
fans for their support... Of the above, apparently only Laurie 
Anderson is known to have stated that yes, she does sometimes lurk on 
her own newsgroup. On the whole I think a lot of creative artists 
would be very touched to know that we're fanatical about their work, 
but wouldn't want to follow too closely our discussions. So let's not 
get our hopes up.

Now I'm off to get my ill-fitting trousers cleaned, change my 
Godzilla T-shirt, and chat to my toy pig.

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"