Lineland as Pynchon Authority (redux)

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Jules Siegel wrote:
> >> Is this the Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., fan club?

To which Meg Larson replied:
> >. . . uh, yeah, I guess it is--we're all fans of the Man and His Work.
> That's why this the Pynchon-L, and not the Grisham-L.

To which Jules replied:
> I thought the list was devoted to the scholarly discussion of his work, pro
> and con. If it's a fan club, where are there magic decoder rings and T-shirts?

Jules, you've been on the list long enough to've noticed that while there
may be (although I doubt it) a few academics on the list who are not big
TRP fans that most of the listers, academic or not, are in fact big fans. 
Please don't get that well-rehearsed look of betrayed innocence on your
face and say you didn't know this.

For me and I believe for some others the fun of this list has less to do
with the "scholarly discussion of his work" than it does with
communicating with an interesting and intelligent self-selected group of
people on a wide variety of topics.

	Steve Maas

PS.  None of this should be taken as an attack on criticism of Pynchon.
Such posts are as welcome as any others here, in my opinion.

PPS. Where _are_ those magic decoder rings and T-shirts?