General disillusionment

[Coffey, Mitchell R]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: E. Dominic Black [mailto:edblack at starquest.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:02 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: General disillusionment
>
>
>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

No, you've been misled into thinking that other people know what he's
talking about.

Mitchell Coffey