"valid or legitimate way to read the texts"

[Doug Millison]

No, rj, you're the hypocrite. I do not deny anybody the right to any 
opinion she wishes to express on Pynchon-L and I never have, despite 
all your whining about free speech and list Nazis since your first 
appearance in this forum.  You continue to have the right and the 
ability to express any opinion you want to express on Pynchon-L. So 
do the rest of us.

You are the first person to make this sort of claim ("that is not a 
valid or legitimate way to read" Pynchon) in this forum, during the 
nearly four years I've participated here on Pynchon-L. Pynchon 
scholars far more knowledgeable and clearly far wiser than you take 
care to leave room in the discussion for differing points of view, 
avoiding the claim to authority which is perhaps the weakest argument 
that can be made in favor of a particular literary interpretation. 
The rest of us generally put forth  interpretations as suggestions, 
as possibilities, as enticements to a continued conversation, rather 
that trying to stop a particular line of inquiry because it's not 
valid or legitimate.

I respect your right to say what you want to say,  but I continue to 
piss on your idiotic opinion about what is or isn't a "valid or 
legitimate way to read the texts."

You might  be able to force others to accept that sort of judgement 
-- or to put that view forth without  disagreement -- if you're the 
authority in a military training environment, or perhaps in a grammar 
school or high school or university classroom, or in some other place 
that accomodates your authoritarian, black/white, right/wrong, 
binary, excluded middles approach.

That's my opinion, expressed directly.  You are  free to disagree with it.

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