My close personal friend

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

rayunknown makes his debut chiding:
I wrote to Peter G:
>> 
>> 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

and rayunknown responds:

>i don't mean to take you too seriously, but i must note my distaste at
>the 'y'r new here, don't fuck up again' attitude. 
>ie let's concern ourselves with pynchon's writing, not our status as
>pynchon bohemians (bohemian: a hanger-on of the arts)


Good morning rayunknown,
Yes, well you did take my comment in exactly the wrong spirit.  I would have thought 
that the general tone of it, the silly caps,  as well as the distinct absence of the word *fuck* 
(was that editorial emendation necessary?) made that rather obvious.   It was pure fun. I 
don't think the person to whom I was writing took offense, though I may find a post from 
him further down today's stuffed mailbox.

chill, baby, and welcome to the list.

john m