Plist ethos (was TIMES article)

[Paul Mackin]

John M sez:

Has TP gone too
far in dancing with the devil?  

>>>He's not dancing with the devil as much as DANCING IN THE
DARK. He's in a new situation and trying to play it by ear. He will
win some and lose some but in the end will learn by experience.

AND/OR:  Is this list just a teensy bit implicated?
 Are we becoming an invidious force on the person whose 
work we purport to admire and value so much? Y'know, the look alike
 shows, the puppet theaters, the costume parties,the mug hoisting hale-fellow-well-met 
social oleo that gets so much attention? Maybe there are some unwelcome 
consequences to that whole shebang?

>>>>I don't think the exuberance of a few fans is a problem. Some of
us enjoy this sort of thing. We don't all have too.
 
 but I 
say it's time for a little fucking soul searching, boys and girls.  And
 those whose souls are irremediably mediated, ie. gone, oughtta 
fucking unsubscribe. Forever.

>>>Forgive me, John, but this could be interpreted as the
kind of insular thinking that INVITES the view that Pynchon
readers are fanatics. I know you had something else in mind,
but exclusiveness is contagious and slightly odious IMHO.

On your real point, can we not happily think that Rick Moody's
brief time on the list added to the excellence of his Atlantic
review? He's, for the present at least, very much in the media
front line.

			P.