On a Moderated P-lst (WAS: Logocentrism)

[David Morris]

>David commenting that the description "same old" doesn't fit GR's messages:
>"[snip]  it's truly amazing how difficult it is for any individual to get 
>his hands around that message, much less come to any agreement with others 
>about what that "same old" message is."<

>>Douggie finds a way to turn this into a P-list criticism:
>>What I find amazing is how many Pynchon readers actually do manage to get 
>>their arms around Pynchon and make sense of his work. [snip] Admittedly, 
>>not  much of this sense-making shows up in this forum, but then that 
>>doesn't seem to be what this forum is about, most of the time these days 
>>at least. But, the recent OKC Law Review issue devoted to Pynchon, [snip & 
>>yawn...] For anybody who'd like to move the P-list conversation to a 
>>higher plane, there's no shortage of material to talk about, and no 
>>shortage of examples of how, in fact, serious readers can sustain a 
>>serious conversation about Pynchon.<<

I'm sure things here would be SO much more sensible and "elevated" if YOU 
were in charge.  How's about some P-text for you:

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(746.23) - yeah, they're all here ["undesirable" visitors] showing up at Der 
Platz these days.  but the alternative is to start keeping some out and not 
others, and nobody's ready for that.... Decisions like that are for some 
angel stationed very high, watching us at our many perversities, crawling 
upon black satin, gagging on whip-handles, licking the blood from a lover's 
vein hit, all of it, every last giggle or sigh being carried on under a 
sentence of death whose deep beauty the angel has never been close to....
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DM

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