who said what

[Jules Siegel]

Murthy Yenamandra wrote:
> 
> Re: The mini-confusion over who said:
> > [...] From what I see here,
> > many of the people on the list have not been able to get through
> > Gravity's Rainbow and, in fact, are here in order to understand it
> > better.
> 
> Went back and looked at the archives. I believe it indeed was Jules
> (responding to Mascaro). The full text was:
> 
> > [7] I read all his short stories. I read V. carefully more than once and
> > I summarized it for North American Newspaper Alliance in 1963. The
> > Crying of Lot 49 left me cold, but I did read it. From what I see here,
> > many of the people on the list have not been able to get through
> > Gravity's Rainbow and, in fact, are here in order to understand it
> > better.
> 
> Not that it really matters who said it (reading and sending mail through
> web-browsers seems to screw up an attribution here and there) - I'm sure
> that it is a view shared by quite a few. Jules' followup to it is the
> interesting part.
> 
> Murthy
> 
> --
> Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
> "Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
> that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_

Oops! So he was wearing his Pampers after all. Sorry there, Muscaro. We
will remove the offending mark from your dossier. Of course, the smudge
will always be there. Very heavy bureacracy here at Siegel Industries
and Affilates, SA de CV., Werewolf Productions Division.

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