My close personal friend

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Hello, peter,
Thank you for not taking my post too seriously.  I think it upset ray.  I was playing, as
* that Chris* is a pretty well known member of this list and a great part of it.  No offense 
meant.  Sorry about the ambiguity.
john m
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>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
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>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
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>I say:
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>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
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>Peter Giordano
>Williams College
>Williamstown, MA
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