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[David Morris]

My Dear J:

Please consider the sensitivity of us gentle P-listers when referring to you 
"Box" and especially "your own Great End!"  Really now!  I am sure your 
mother didn't teach you such language, and we don't appreciate it either.

Your etc. etc.

David Morris

>From: "J Suete"
>
>A little Politically Not so Correct commentary on the Low and Narrow roads 
>taken by the members of this mud slinging Discord that calls itself a 
>Pynchon-L:
>
>gentlemen, gentlemen, the Books before us are Grave enough without such 
>talk, Ought not the readers of Pynchon to know that dim-witted flippancy, 
>foul-mouthing invective, and the other Nonsense I read here, are not funny 
>nor creative, certainly not original ("fuck this or that"), and plainly a 
>waste ( without a capital W)  of even the most  disreputable idiots time 
>and effort. This is outrageous!  Putting these words in my Box, treating me 
>after a very Rough manner, is very indecent, from one Lady to Several 
>gentlemen (there are no Ladies here I'm sure), and doth not contribute at 
>all to the discovery of the Truth, which ought to be the Great End in all 
>disputes of the Learned. My own Great End has been known to cause my face 
>to color (especially after taking dinner at the White's castle), so I 
>assure you I am no prudish virgin, but only want to remind the gentlemen 
>here that calling a man a villain or a Boy-scout, only for differing from 
>him in a point merely speculative, is,!
>  in my humble opinion, a very improper style for a person of Education. I 
>appeal to the Learned members of this Pynchon-L to stop this inanity and 
>get on with the discussion of the pages Mr. Pynchon labored to write for 
>his dear readers.
>
>I am, with waning respect,
>			Sirs,
>			      Yours, &c.

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