A substantial group reading of V.

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:

> I'm fascinated by the thought that if this bitmap crap turns out to last a 
> long time, then 500 years from now scholars may be combing through all this 
> p-list bickering in their search for pearls of Pynchonian wisdom.

God, I am too and have always been horrified by the waste of saving it
all in those achieves. Well, mildly horrified. Storage is cheap and a
future argument or two might thereby be settled.

Hope scholars aren't combing through what I'm saying, even five minutes
from now. Not likely. I've heard this postition expressed by other
p-listers as well. Seems like at least half the time we would like NOT to
have pressed that send botton. Well here goes anyway.

			P. 





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> pmackin at clark.net writes:
> 
>  The p-list is just text generating more text (as is text's wont). As
>  rj likes to remind us text will be different upon each reading by each 
>  individual reader.  So if the text-that-is-the p-list  can be said to be
>  good or bad, better or worse than it used to be, this can be so only in
>  relation to a particular reader.
>