Pynchonian pervers prose (was pynchon-l-digest V2 #2204)

[Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com]

barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

"So who are you half in love with me?  You're very sweet.  Terrance was
right--I do love the attention.

Why do I like Doug so much....I don't know.  I liked him from the start.
Just a feeling, like the feeling I get from a lot of people around here. But
Doug has a lot to say,  and he says it exceptionally well.   I think it has
less to do with politics and more to do with language and the fine way in
which he uses it.  I haven't heard anyone around here put up a better
argument in the two or three months I've been here.  Except for me of course
:  ) on the nature of the Economy, but he backed away polite as could be.

I also like him because of the way he interprets Pynchon.  A couple of his
recent posts on Gravity's Rainbow were terrific.  The man knows how to write
and he knows how to READ.   How could I not like him. Yes, he's a prick
sometimes, but it's part of his charm. And I admire his tenacity and his
energy in fighting off the goons.  Those boys need a kick in the ass
sometimes.  All of us do, but they do especially."

It's not attention that I love -- it's that I NEED it.  The same way a 
vampire needs the blood.  You are right about him being a prick, but only 
because I am jealous.  I have read Gravity's Rainbow only twice.  The end 
always puzzles me.  As far as the Boys needing a kick in the ass, I'm all for 
it.  Let the fun begin.  Time to take a cold shower now.

lycidas2 at earthlink.net (Terrance):

"Easy to spot. 
Like all Doug's personas. 
Hey, have you got one of those machines like I got? 
It can tell shakespeare from bacon and smell a rotten egg a mile away."

This lycidas2 is rapidly becoming my Moriarty.  What a maroon!  He thinks he 
is so casual.  To say I am Doug!  What an insult.  I should demand 
satisfaction.  I would flog you like a perverted bitch, you - you - you 
doggerel scribbling maniac!!
Please God!  May he fall in front of a bus....    
Seriously, though:  No, Terrance, yours truly is not Doug.  I swear it on my 
mother's grave.

ich bin
der Narr




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