We're different- Re: In The Zone (getting M&D poster)

[jporter]

>So I call my local B&N, and the guy tells me there were no such posters, he
>hadn't heard of M&D, or the Master, and even if he had heard of it, it
>wasn't in the computer.  Next I called Borders, and the clerk asks around,
>and nobody'd heard of Our Favorite Author, or M&D, not in the computer,
>forget any posters.
>
>So I gave up and called Henry Holt, the publisher. I explained my plight to
>a very nice woman in public relations, a prominent executive, a-and even
>*she* hadn't heard of TRP. I said would like one of those fine TRP posters,
>like in the bookstore windows. She hesitantly replied, "You want TRP for
>Windows? Is that an obsolete computer language? You've got the wrong
>publisher."
>
>With her words I uncovered my problem.  I'm a fanatic p-lister, have been
>for a while, I can tell you his son's name, how long he spent in the Navy,
>the titles of his technical writing projects, usw, but I've never found out
>the name of The Man We Never Refer To By Name.
>
>Can someone please finally tell me what TRP and M&D stand for so I can get
>my @#$&! poster,,,??
>
>
>Chris


It's time to admit what we've known all along: we are different than the
vast majority of people in at least one important facet of our
consciousness- that which brings us here.

Most people haven't heard of much less read TRP. The majority of the
minority that have heard of him, haven't read him and reference him as
another literary name-to-be-dropped icon, along with other such names, the
works of whom they may have read- one, part of, or none at all.

We are different.

By analogy, nothing causes lipid loving membranes to self-assemble into
core protecting globules more quickly than being dropped into water.

The unseen influence around which we have congregated has thus far provided
enough meaning to keep us coming back to this virtual community. Oddly, the
cohesiveness of the p-list is as dependent, in some complicated way, on the
blank stares and wrinkled foreheads of the masses, as on our mutual
interests in Pynchon.

Shelter from the sacred storm.

Keep cool but care,

jody