Puzo's source for the Godfather (not a flame)

[still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made]

On Thu, 15 May 1997, still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made wrote:
> > I want to apologize to the subscribers of pynchon-l for having to make this
> > kind of statement in a literary forum, but I'm sure that you can understand
> > why I have to do it.
> 
> No, actually.  Apology not accepted.  Take your bullshit somewhere else.
> 
> You're one of the biggest assholes I've ever met, on or off line.

Just to elaborate on my previous statement, made very much in the heat of
the moment, but not at all regretted:

I find Mr. Siegel to be mean-spirited and insecure, given to threats and
jibes when anyone contradicts him.  I have NEVER, in 6 years on the
Internet, encountered anyone who threatened to sue someone else for
something said on line...or who threatened to get someone in trouble with
their employer for the same reason.

It is a real shame that this list is contaminated by such idiocy.  Till now
I have taken at least a modicum of amusement from Jules' post, since at
least his bragadoccio and weirdness sometimes made amusing flame fodder.
But I think it is time for me to fiddle around with my mailer and figure
out how to (again, a first in all my time on-line) make a kill-file.  

Once again, I reject Siegel's apology for making threats on line.  He
could at the very least have done it privately to Giordano.  But he had
to wave his dick around in front of everyone, as always.

Not that anyone cares what I think,
Max

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