My close personal friend

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MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
> 
> 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
(mixing an ice-cold Drink with my finger) got my panties in a bunch
there for a moment.
ray