Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[calbert at tiac.net]

Doug:

> Go figure.  If we're going to talk about whether an essay of P's is
> "cranky" or not, I would have thought that getting a definition of
> "cranky" clear up front would be useful, didn't realize the dictionary
> was such a threat...

No-one is "threatened" by the dictionary...but discourse is surely 
flavored by the absence of direct and applicable comment to his 
post....If you had simply asked your question, and had included 
your definition in such a context - no beef.....

but you and I both know that you had another purpose in mind.....

love,
cfa 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: calbert at tiac.net [mailto:calbert at tiac.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 12:58 PM
> To: Doug Millison
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: Is it OK to be a Luddite?
> 
> 
> Doug:
> > OK. What is it about the  Is it OK to be a Luddite? essay that you
> > find cranky and why? That's not an adjective I'd use to describe it
> > but obviously you have so I'm inquiring about this aspect of your
> > characterization of the essay.
> 
> Wouldn't this have been a better approach to your query than listing
> the def. of "cranky"?
> 
> ....and can't we find a better way to employ the list contrarian than
> this? Being that he is not only sincere, articulate and well versed -
> can't we treat MalignD as the resource he truly is? Perhaps "use" him
> to test our assumptions about P and his place in the canon.....
> 
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
> btw, did I miss anything since Murthy maliciously purged me from the
> ranks last friday morning? There is something about that guy's beady
> look that disturbs me.......
> 
>