"Who loves ya, baby?"; was, sort of, 'Telly Savalas'

keith woodward woodwaka at uwec.edu
Fri Dec 18 07:40:27 CST 1998


>...To me it seems somewhat hypocritical to fervently advocate respect of
>Pynchon's privacy on the one hand, aggressively so in the case of the
>anti-Slammin' Steve junta, and then to roundly condemn the same
>expressed or implied desire for privacy when manifested by fellow
>listers. It doesn't add up.

But I thought P was into the whole paired opposite thing?

[...]
>and I'm really really important and much smarter and better and prettier
>than any of you lowlife scum-sucking AOL college losers who aren't me.

Ha-ha! Now we have you! A college loser would most likely be posting from a
".edu" location and would probably find it unnecessary to have an AOL
subscription.

[...]
 But I'm sick to death of having it shoved down my
>throat that just because an opinion doesn't have a concentration camp id
>tattooed across its right wrist then it's somehow inferior to those that
>do...

How about a poisson equation tatooed across one's left arm?

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