I reach for my gun

[Vaska]

At 04:07 PM 7/26/97 -0500, Henry Musikar wrote:

>> Henry, I'm not surprised you're confused, because the whole thing is
>> baffling to the nth degree.
>> 
>
>Sorry, Vaska. I'm not good at following such complications (no 
>sarcasm. I'm really not. Have a difficult time with the Pynch, for 
>instance). I didn't understand your post to the list. While some 
>would question it's relevance to the list, from what you have 
>explained, you have a just complaint. 

Thanks. I also think the List has cause for some just complaint, too.  Few
of us seem to mind our occasional [communal] squabbles: it would be a wonder
if none erupted from time to time.  But let's keep it all in good faith; as
far as that is humanly possible, of course.

>I'm afraid that this is an example of the type of chilling effect 
>that your original post described. If you keep this thread up, you're 
>another boring DYB harridan. If you drop it, you've been silenced.

I've had my say, Henry, and am off to topics more congenial.  Those who are
silenced are the ones who choose to stand on the side-lines and wag their
heads and say nothing....  Eva Sedgwick describes it as one of the phenomena
typical of the "homo-social order" -- and since Pynchon all but quotes her
word for word somewhere in _Vineland_, he at least would appreciate what's
really going on on the P-list these days.

Vaska