All This Useless Beauty

[Mike Weaver]

Bob Norton wrote:
> This list is on a fatal downward spiral due to the egos
>of a half dozen people who JUST WON'T LET IT DROP. S/N is lower than 10%
>this week. If this doesn't get any better in the next two weeks I intend to
>start a new Pynchon list. Almost of you will be welcome there; several of
>you will not be notified of the address and will find your way onto the
>list over my dead body. It will not be moderated but participants who
>obnoxiously waste our time will be dropped from said list by a democratic
>showing of virtual hands. Anarchy is fine, but it's really for adults.


Do it Bob, then perhaps all the bozos who think that the p-list is about
Literature alone, and not life in all its untidy variety, will bugger off
and leave the rest of us to work our messy way through the vital issues that
arise as well as celebrating and exploring the worlds of our favourite
wordsmith.  I've been too busy and knackered than to do more than skim the
last few days postings and am sorry I haven't been able to generate  even
more of what you would might well consider noise,  in support of  Vaska as
she attempted, however messily, to air rather important issues which I'm
sure TP would rather we were doing than solely dissecting every one of his
intellectual weavings.  
        A list is a collective life form, decay and development entwined in
dialectical tension.  As has been suggested in the last few weeks,
complaining about the decay is no substitute for enhancing the development.

Mike
   
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                           around me?    - Piet Hein
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