windbaggery on pynchon-l

[john wells]

Paul Murphy wrote:
> 
> So I was having a nic fit in the library while literally thumbing through
> the latest pynchon-l-digest, all 51K of it, thumbing because I was on an
> old terminal with Pine software (space-bar = page-down), and a few things
> came to mind:
> 
> -- Doug Millison: please quote selectively when responding.
> 
> -- if this list is the internet equivalent of a cocktail party, sometimes
> it feels like one described by Proust -- where the conversation gets
> drowned out by belaboured attempts at humour

-I must plead guilty to the above comment, Paul. I'll try to restrain
myself.
 john 

> and by windbags who drone on
> interminably in a desparate and transparent attempt to attract attention to
> themselves.
> I went outside and subdued the nicotine craving and the inchoate rage
> occasioned by the digest and exacerbated by the craving, but still, I must
> confess to entertaining the thought of unsubscribing.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul