Moaning has broken...

[Terrance]

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Mike Weaver wrote:
> 
> It may be my imagination, but the list seems to have changed quite
> dramatically over the last year or so. I seem to remember a time when there
> were many more regular posters, and several women among them, much more
> little and often, in contrast with the current dominance by, currently,
> four (young?) males debating, (and bickering among themselves until Doug
> sets himself up as target for the contempt and loathing some of them enjoy
> expressing online.)
>         It seems a long time since we had fun on the list, favourites lists,
> books, music, current reading, toy lists even. The list has got ponderous
> and heavy, too much learning and not enough lightness. Some of us got into
> Pynchon coz of the humour not the erudition. "The oil of the soul" as Lord
> Buckley described it, making P a can of WD40 maybe.
>         Perhaps if we have a good whip round we can send Dave, Dave, Rob and Ter
> off on a month's R and R (Randy-Tandy Man style). Probably should send Doug
> as well if he doesn't drop his obsession with Rob J. Dump them all on an
> atoll last used for nuclear testing, with some firewood and the Compleat
> Pynchon. They could argue as to which pages could be sacrificed to light
> fires and who should/should not be eaten because the p-list couldn't
> survive more than a month without them...
> Film it all of course. Show it on Harold Boom Presents... the proposed
> series of cautionary litcrit tales, each introduced by the master himself.
> In the mean time it would leave room for less assertive list members to say
> a few words, without fear of being intellectually bulldozed into the
> sidelines.
>