curmudgeonly is as does

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Bonnie Surfus bludgeons my curmudgeons:

>curmudgeonly indeed.  Haven't I seen "too much" talk of Nabokov?  Of 
>Gibson?  of Joyce?  Come on.  This list is, in part, constitued in/by 
>ephemera.  "so why don't one of you [us] just go start a DFW list?"  Even 
>your discourse is embarrassingly juvenile.
>
Yo, Bon, do we rag on you for talking alla time about that bloody dissertation of 
yours?  Did we sneer "been there, done that" everytime you told us that, well, you 
really shouldn't be posting because you had those exams to cram for?  Do you really 
think I don't know how to be--deliberately--embarrassing, or juvenile, for that 
matter, vis-a-vis tricky little things like subject-verb agreements?  I was just 
noticing that for the past two weeks this list has more DWF entries than TRP 
(something neither Nabokov  nor  Hoot Gibson have quite accomplished).  So I 
was just, a bit exasperatingly, and quite ephemerally in fact, asking an honest 
question.  Why don't one of we start a DWF list?  Not a rhetorical question or an 
insult.  Just a query, really.

And you never heard a peep outta me on Joyce or Gibson, though yes, I have made 
a few Nabokov remarks.  So if these things bother you, as they seem to, why 
haven't you said something?  Something not embarrassing, something not 
juvenile, something not ephemeral.

I think you slammed me harder than I deserved, ok?  If the list is so loose, why the 
harsh goose?

john m