pynchon-l-digest V2 #1330

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Ben McLeod wrote:

>   Apparently Cowboy Wally was not clear enough for you.
>   If the point of being on this list it to out-emote overy verbose English 
>   majors from around the globe I will sign off right now.

Funny construction of my post but that's OK. What makes Cowboy Wally think
there is a "point of being on this list"? The p-list is to do with what
one will. When you're around a while you'll enjoy it, both what you agree 
with and what appalls you. Or maybe not.

			P.






  I can think of few 
> things more unpleasant, except maybe going to the Renasance fair with 
> theater majors or talking to an art student about their performance piece.
>   I'm not suggesting that GR should be availble in Cliff's Notes (who would 
> write _those_?), but I have decided that since I really like his books, I 
> would like to encourage other folks to read them, not to try and raise the 
> bar. "Well, not everyone understands it the first time out.  I hear Stephen 
> King has a new one out, why don't you try that?  Or maybe comic books?"
>   I'm sorry, I'm getting a little angry.  I apologize- I do recognize that 
> this is not going to be 'pop' next week.  But really, if you think it's a 
> great piece of work, literary craftsmanship and all, why is it so unlikely 
> that at some point, more than a handful (The Inner Junta) of people would 
> know these books?
> nohed
> 
> 
> _________________________________
> Yes I agree we must resign ourselves to the fact that Pynchon will never
> reach down to the masses. Or ever reach up to the movers and shakers
> for that matter. However it's also my observation over time that the
> p-list itself is exceedingly egalitarian. Any other stance would quickly
> be laughed into extinction, wouldn't it? A fair number of
> participants show definite signs of having spent time in graduate
> English departments or the equivalent. However actual disputes and
> unpleasantnesses when they pop up seldom are over intellectual
> matters. It's more often than not a question who can out emote the next
> guy over various justice matters (race in American and the Holacaust to
> name a few) and what Pynchon "obviously" stands for. This can get quite
> violent and for the wicked like myself not entirely unwelcome but the
> price to be paid to one's dignity for forgetting to take one's  thorazine
> that morning can be quite high.
> 
> 			P.
> 
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