Joseph Heller [was Re: if I had a gun]

[Vaska]

Paul Mackin writes: 
>The way I reconstruct it, using secondary sources: Andrew's hauteur
>caused an overreation on the part of Harrison which together with 
>Charles' inprecision of language didn't get sufficient rise out of Joe 
>much to the chagrin of Vaska in light of Joe's termity to
>state that Meg hadn't seemed to be intimidated by . . . oh, I forget
>who the original intimidator was, oh, yes, having a moderator.

Or, in the apt words of Henry Musikar:

>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.

Not exactly a Pynchon-inspired scenario, but reminiscent of another
contemporary American novel, no?  Which is as much comment as I will make on
this.     

Vaska