Can Pynchon-L be far behind?

[Henry Musikar]

On 14 Jun 96 at 16:07, Penny Padgett wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This week's NYTimes Book Review (6/16/96, p. 51) has a full-page 
> article by Robert Sullivan, a contributing editor at Vogue, singing 
> the praises of the James Joyce mailing lists (J-Joyce and F-Wake, if 
> I understand him correctly).
> 
> Surprisingly, Sullivan stays away from almost all of the cliches
> of newbie-on-the-Internet writing.  He manages to communicate in a
> lively fashion the wide range of topics and levels of interest that 
> postings to a literary mailing list can generate.  A quote:
> 
>   Mostly, however, the scholarly and the not-so-scholarly chat
>   together peacefully, as was the case in a recent three-day
>   discussion of flatulence in Joyce's work, which was prompted
>   by a graduate student's apparently serious need to compare
>   Joyce's take on the matter with Dante's in "Paradise Lost."
> 
> So, I ask, can a similar article lauding Pynchon-L be far behind?
> Which of our native writers or scholars can we tap to communicate
> the joys of noshing at the virtual Pynchon banquet?
> 
> Penny
> 
God forbid! Who needs  bunch of thrill seeking tourist schoolboys (or 
girls).

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