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

[Henry M]

I believe lehrer (not sure if it has an h) means teacher in German.

> From:          " Paul Mackin" <mackin at allware.com>
> To:            <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject:       Re: I hate you all & hope you all die (was Re: Feetlebaum)
> Date:          Fri, 31 Jan 1997 10:00:36 -0500

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> ----------
> > 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"
> 
> 

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