Navigating the minefield

[Dave Monroe]

Still awake, currently much amused, so ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
 
> 1) Thanks are due to Dave Monroe for his hosting.

Not due, of course, a gift in that Levinasian sense,
without expectation of, even desire for, return (hm
... kinda Kantian around the ethical that way as well,
no?), but, again, you're welcome ...
 
> 2) "Max's" comment about the "dominance and
> submission scholarship usually
> in evidence on this list" was way out of line.

Out of line when it comes to the gracious and
hospitable, indeed, hosting we've all had the pleasure
of here, but otherwise ...
 
> 3) The most productive model for group discussion is
> the open-ended style of
> summary, notes and questions perfected by people
> like Chris, Jeremy and, if
> I recall right, davemarc. Don Corathers' host spot
> in the current read was
> also exemplary in this respect. (Of course, thanks
> are due to *all* hosts
> and participants for their efforts in contributing
> to the discussion.)

But what the left-hand giveth, the right hand taketh
away, apparently (i.e., thanks).  i honestly don't
know how much more "open-ended" I could have left just
about anything that I posted, save not to have posted
any of it at all.  A group discussion is only as
productive as the group makes it, 

> Alongside these parenthetic and inconsequential
> observations I also posted
> rather more extensive commentaries on the 'Luddite'
> essay, Blicero's
> characterisation in _GR_, and, from the current
> section of the group read,
> some thoughts on the song title 'Fugue Your Buddy',
> on the expository
> passage where the metaphor of history as a rathouse
> is proffered by an
> externalised narrator, and a more general comparison
> of the sewer motif in
> the novel with similar motifs in contemporary
> American works of fiction. I
> know which set of data I'd rather be discussing
> right now.

Obviously.  No one's obliged to make smalltalk with
the host, of course.  Mingle, mingle ...
 
> If a starting point is needed for discussion of the
> next section of V. then
> there is a brief overview here:
> 
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/mondstory.html
> 
> best

So you won't be putting your practice where your
preaching is, then?  Sorry, one tries to be a good
host, but as the party wears on, the guests get surly,
the neighbors are pounding on the walls, ceiling,
whatever, surely a prelude to the police pounding on
the door, and all youwant to do is get to bed and get
some sleep before having to clean up in the moring,
well ...

Well, St. Patrick's Day is long since over, and maybe
it's time to get in some cars or call some cabs, as
the couches and bathtubs and floors and other
available such crashpads are already taken.  G'day,
mate ...


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