A plea Publick

[Paul Mackin]

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From:  3DEM11 at QUCDN.QueensU.CA[SMTP:3DEM11 at QUCDN.QueensU.CA]
Sent:  Sunday, September 28, 1997 9:25 PM
To:  pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject:  A plea Publick



The whole thing reminded me of that scene in M&D wherein someone yells
to the foreman "your mother's pussy" and the foreman responds
with a couple of limericks on mothers and chamberpots etc.
Well, ick.
But nobody got personal.

True and succinctly put. Nobody got personal with the reader, only with the foreman.
To the reader it's only words. I've been thinking a lot lately about the possibility of
making the p-list more like that, only it'd never work. We know each other
and are doomed to some degree of personalness. Don't suppose this is exactly
what Dana was referring to but IMHO it's related. It's also related I think to 
why some writers might want to remain anonymous to their readers. It
makes them freer. The p-list is a very strange medium.

					P.