Lineland

[Henry Musikar]

Excellent point. The p-list contributions are generally more 
interesting than they were during the hour of the self-described 
wolf. Even the troll evoked better responses. I hope Jules has 
brought more to Lineland than his and our messages during that 
period.

On 24 Apr 97 at 1:07, Paul Murphy <paul.murphy at utoronto.ca> wrote:
<snip>
> My second reaction was one of disappointment, borne of a certain
> personal vanity. Of all the possible books to be made of Pynchon-l
> submissions, this is probably the most meretricious and least
> insightful one I could imagine, and I have no doubt that each
> contributor has written far more interesting and significant posts
> about Pynchon's work than anything to be found in the Siegel
> exploitation. At least, I know I've written more interesting posts
> (or I like to think I have ...). The Siegel episode amounted to
> shooting the shit about that guy Tom Pynchon that Siegel once knew
> (and won't let anyone forget about it), but clearly the biographical
> dimension isn't the main reason why any of us are here. If material
> from this list were to be published, I'd rather see something more
> substantive like a collected and expanded GRGR (or even the complete
> correspondence of Steely and davemarc on Spielberg ;)).
<snip>

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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