My close personal friend

[Peter Giordano]

I wrote:
>>Somebody said:
>>>     Sorry, TRP and I have a date in Brooklyn to celebrate with my granny,
>>>     also born today, and the celebrated author of "Mittelwerk:  These
>>>     Fragments I Shore Against My Ruins -- My Adventures on the Pynchon
>>>     List."
>>I say:
>>The above is a lie!!! TRP will be out tonight celebrating with me

Somebody in reply to the above said:
>Well you must be very new to this list, Peter, and greatly in need of
>certain Crucial
>Information to avoid terminal gaffes: that wasn't *somebody* sir,  who
>said that, that was
>*that Chris* our own list angel and generally swell person.  Don't mess up
>again
>

I say:

I use "somebody" for personal reasons in most of my responses - I have no
doubt that Chris is a swell person (perhaps even specifically, as well as
generally) - I had hoped that it would be clear that I was lampooning
TRP's efforts to be secretive rather than Chris good fellowship - I will
try not to mess up again

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA