Ellipsis and the Practice of Selective Reading

[Dave Monroe]

"Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be on this list if you didn't have some pretty
strong feeling about Thomas Pynchon."   Major Malfunction, PYNCHON-L at WASTE.ORG

... and I was starting to worry I might actually be the sanest person in this
ruckus.  Thank you, Mr. (Dr.?--Derek) Maus, that was much needed here.   I just
hope I didn't play all too much a part in driving you to it, is all.  For my
part, I will be happy to read Gravity's Rainbow, et al., any fucking (!) way I
like, and will indeed be happy to tell you, all of you, all about it.  All I ask
is that you perhaps return the favor (which I do not think will be all too large
an imposition here).   Which is the way things SHOULD be, but ...


"Derek C. Maus" wrote:

> we're taking ad hominem to a whole new fucking collective level here, people.
>
> Jesus H. Christ...IT'S A GODDAMN BOOK! Read it any fucking way you like and
> tell me all about it. Just please quit acting like the pumping of your blood
> relies on getting the upper hand in the "discussion".
>
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> Derek C. Maus               |   "Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be
> dmaus at email.unc.edu         |   human beings if you didn't have some
> UNC-CH, Dept. of English    |   pretty strong feelings about nuclear
> http://www.unc.edu/~dmaus/  |   combat."  --Major Kong, DR. STRANGELOVE
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