the need to impersonate

[Paul Mackin]

Doug spotting is really quite easy, although there is always an element of
uncertainty, because circumstantial evidence is like that. But certain
mannerisms and obsessions are difficult to hide. No matter how hard one
tries to tuck them out of sight here they will burst out over there. And
Doug some of the time does not seem to be even trying but rather wants to
make the whole thing into a joke for which I can't blame him and in fact
have commended him for now and then. His victims can't be expected to
appreciate the humor.

Remember Dr. Stangelove and his hand salute which would pop up whenever he
came under stress no matter how hard his other (good) hand tried to suppress
it.

        P.


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: the need to impersonate


>
> In the same vein, then, I'd imagine that a certain dude might feel obliged
> to set the record straight with that certain editor, now that the jig is
> well and truly up. Unless, of course, that certain dude has been complicit
> all along. (Cato? ... )
>
> Terrance is right. It's easy enough to spot once you know what it is
you're
> looking at, and you've been right on the money. But there's probably
always
> going to be a small margin of error.
>
> best wishes, Paul
>
>
> paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:
>
> > Here Doug is beginning to sound like another voice out of the
past--namely
> > Walter Winchell, gossip colunmist for the old New York Daily Mirror and
the
> > radio. (Good Evening, Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and
coast
> > to coast, and all the ships at sea, let's go to press. Flash . . .)
Winchell
> > was one of Joe McCarthy's admirerers although was in decided wane by the
> > time McCarthy got going strong. Winchell's forte was hinting at personal
> > information about people. What certain someone did what to a certain
someone
> > else under the table in a certain New York nightspot?
> >
> > P.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Olly Ruff" <oruff@[omitted]>
> > To: <pynchon-l@[omitted]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:52 PM
> > Subject: "Rob"
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -- and that one proved to be more than a little
> >>> embarrassing for him/her when word got around to a certain editor,
> > didn't
> >>> it Rob.
> >>
> >>
> >> Well, you're publically acknowledging that you know what his name is.
This
> >> is a start. The ostentatious "him/her" seems, as ever, completely
> >> unnecessary.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >> O.R.
> >>
> >>
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