Pynchon-Tinasky

[Dave Monroe]

Good morning, America ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You started the name-calling, Dude.  What do you
> call this: "jbor's 
> sycophantic little lackey"

Fair enough, though I belive "Dude" here is a title
already spoken for ("Is Monroe Hollander?"  Hm ...). 
I will note I was a little less Anglo-Saxon, a little
more family hour, a little more, well, polite about
things, but ...

> This is pure bullshit.  

Hey, now there's an interesting, albeit perhaps
untenable ("pure" + "bullshit") concept, one which
certainly problematizes certain lines of
anthropologica thought, but ... well, okay, being a
wiseguy here (one of my many endearing traits, no
doubt) ...

  You can't be specific about
> this charge because it 
> is not true,   

But I could.  Given time, patience, incentive (all
three of which I'm currently sorely lacking in),
shuffle through the Archives, at least since I signed
on, and find examples of, say, exactly what just
happened here, where you've complained bluntly that a
topic is uniteresting, unworthy, whatever, even as the
pitch and intensity of the discussion belied this. 
For starters.  I've never been under the impression
that you've been addressing both (or more)
participants, sides, what have you.  There are
predictable weather patterns here @ the Pynchon-List
...

Why I go to this much trouble to continue to respond
to these things, I don't know, but, well, I think it
important in some cases.  I do not let hard feelings
remain as such insofar as it is in my power to do so 
...

but if you a want specific example of
> this behavior we have it 
> in the re-emergence of Millison to attack me and
> defend you.  

Don't know about "re-emergence."  Doug's apparently
been too busy to keep up even on the interesting
little (and sometimes not so little) news items he
used to post regularly.  But point well taken.  We
speak up for others here when we deem it necessary. 
Again, fair enough ...

"Big One" is 
> the lackey of whomever is in opposition to those he
> loves to hate (those who 
> disagree with him).

Well, whoever s/he is, s/he's not quite a "lackey," in
that s/he doesn't much seem to uphold any given
position, poster, whatever, against any other one. 
Just certain hypocrisies seem to piss him/her off.  As
they do me.  I'm just not quite so blunt about it
(again, politesse ...) ...

  That I happen to be in that
> group does not make me in 
> any way "in league" with that group.

Don't know about "in league," just a pattern, is all. 
Have yet to uncover the cave, the candles, the skulls,
but ... conspiracy vs. contingency?  A strongly
suggested causality, at any rate.  Whatever ...

  That is a
> figment of Douggie's 
> imagination, which you seem to have adopted.

Well, me and the Mrs. have never been able to have a
little one of our own, so ...

> My complaint was an equal-opportunity one.  IMO you
> both had long ago spent 
> the topic's poverty.

I of course disagree with you on the latter ("spent"
and "poverty"), but do apologize if I misread you on
the former.  Again.  And I do thank you for
reintroducing Mr. Pynchon's fine first novel, V., back
into the discussion.  Again, might well be in the Big
E-Z in the near future, would not be adverse to saying
"hello."   Will leave the hired goons at home ...
 
> DM

DM

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