I hate you all & hope you all die (was Re: Feetlebaum)

[Paul Mackin]

Confess to being the one who left the last syllable off
Lehrer. Saw it didn't look quite right. Went to
look for the LP but it must have been made off with by a son
decades ago. 

Even here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
(everything is free if you're brave enough) Lehrer was a god
in those long-ago sixties.

Funny, the spelling still doesn't look right. But who am I?

				P.



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> From: Craig Clark <CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: I hate you all & hope you all die (was Re: Feetlebaum)
> Date: Friday, January 31, 1997 4:14 AM
> 
> John Mascaro suggested:
> 
>  >I personally would like to see David C. and [Hugh] S. get into an enormous 
>  >scatological flame war over whether it's *Beetle* or *Feetle* baum.  This 
>  >war could go on for days, weeks maybe, with each man insulting the other 
>  >to high heaven and deepest hades.  Then after it's all over and nobody 
>  >won, Steely could come in and call them both morons and explain that it 
>  >was actually Orson Welles' routine, another pioneering technical 
>  >masterpiece, except eveytime they tried to film it, Welles ate the horse!  
>  >But it doesn't stop him, or Steely.
> 
> What I want to do is set fire to the crypto-fascist who suggested that it
could have
> been Tom LEHR. The name is LEHRER. Geddit, assholes? I can't believe that a 
> group of people who claim to be Pynchon enthusiasts (not though most of you
have
> read Pynchon because you obviously haven't because you dare to disagree with
a few
> opinions I have on the subject) could be so STUPID as to think that LEHRER is

> spelt LEHR. You bunch of morons! Can't you read? Has all that Starbucks 
> coffee destroyed whatever braincells were still left functioning after
Academe 
> frontally lobotomised you? You stupid, STUPID, jerks! I hate the lot of you!
Let 
> me tell you that if you had lived through the end of apartheid you'd think
that 
> Lehrer was GOD. It was that comment about "South Africa wants two, that's 
> right/One for the blacks and one for the whites" in "Who's next?" that really
did it 
> for me. I worship the guy, okay? So I find it really, REALLY offensive when
some 
> head-stuck-up-his-arse-contemplating-his-navel shitty ACADEMIC doesn't, even,

> know, His NAME!!!!! I'm gonna find who you are and come'n'kill you! 
> AAAaaaaaagh......!!!(Making a "killer's face" just like Matthew Modine does
in
> _Full Metal Jacket_)
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
>  the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
>  on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"