anti Rushdie on Pynchon 2, Tag, You're It

[Henry Musikar]

Don't want to get pedantic with a bunch of academics looking over my
shoulder, but one mustn't use "his" in Every sentence. Whose then? 
"The man's" But I'm sure that you knew that, John, or do rhetoric classes 
come Before grammar at UCLA these days? I think you may be right 
about Eco: He would use "his" instead of "the man's." Flaccid is as flaccid does.
Not that "the man's" sounds at all like Rushdie - it sounds to me 
like normal, excited speech. None of these author's are (and I would 
suggest most of the P-List, including myself, are not)"normal" as in 
average, median, mediocre.

The flames refuse to die down. Must be all those fires in 
Caliphornya.

Oh, yeah: Hello, DCNY!

On 22 Oct 96 at 16:31, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:

> From:          <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu>
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date:          Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:31:03 PST
> Subject:       Re: anti Rushdie on Pynchon 2
> Priority:      normal

> H. Musikar reveals a stunning virtuosity in his variations on Rice's
> phrase "the man's": > >Your response: is it sarcastic or dishonest.
> By criticizing an >author, you imply a familiarity with that author.
> Your quibbling with >"the man's" and asking if  it is a Rushdian
> constructions suggests >less than a passing acquaintence with the
> author, or would you have >preffered the gender neutral "the
> person's..." Ahhh, perhaps >something as "flaccid" as the phrase
> "the author's..." But then, who >am I to criticize such deathless
> incite and prosody as "nothing short >of stupid." Really!
> 
> I guess the word "his" doesn't reach those Rushdian heights, eh? 
> 
>  I do agree about "nothing short of," however; I should have simply
>  said 
> "downright."  And it is.  But, yes, I was being a wee bit sarcastic,
> though not dishonest, to my knowledge (heh heh). 
>  What distinguishes between "less than passing" acquaintance and
>  fanatical 
> uncritical submersion?
> Anyway, I don't wanna start no big flame war,  I often post on a
> whim or a visceral reaction,  Pace, Rushmeisters.
> 
> john m
> 
> 

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