General disillusionment

[Terrance]

"E. Dominic Black" wrote:
> 
> I've been on this list for years and am always amazed at the things you
> people write. You are so smart, drawing from sources all over. I'm both
> impressed and in awe of your mastery. Yet I often have no idea what
> you're talking about. I've read everything by Pynchon except for M & D,
> which I have purchased. I've downloaded a concordance, I'm ready to
> roll. I'm a little hesitant to begin, because, before I joined the list,
> I read his novels for pleasure, delighting in the little discoveries I
> made therein. But after plowing through daily postings of the most
> esoteric parts of the novels, I question whether I am truly "getting"
> TP's work. Have I somehow been misled into thinking that I know what
> he's talking about?
> 
> E. Dominic Black


Hell NO! Don't worry we don't know half of what we are
talking about either, except for Paul M. he knows what I'm
talking about, I think, and s~Z knows it all, so roll
brother, roll and read M&D and tell us what you think of it
or any of it or how it made you laugh or cry or wonder why
and role...but remember us

Cause nobody in town can bake a Sweet Jelly Role like US, 
No,  Nobody can role a critic down hill like a cheese bus
like we can, 
No, nobody can do Gershwin’s Do It Again with a Steely Dan
like we can,
No, no vaudeville can be a Bear in a Lady’s Boudoir
accompanied by Ukulele like us,
No, nobody can be blowing Fairies on Kazoo, 
scorchers of the flame that's you,
no, nobody can role like the fires of hell,
No, nobody can, not like Pynchon dash L can,
role. 

Terry McMilkman