answering Doug.1

[barbara100 at jps.net]

For God's sake! don't go look it up.  It wasn't but a minute ago you said we'd all been wasting our precious literary time defending ourselves against one another.  Let it go!  Get back to Pynchon, why don't'cha, and and answer my feminist question. I really wanna know! If I'm full of shit in my misogynistic reading of you, then tell me so! (But don't forget to explain why.)


 

Original Message:
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From: Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:33:03 -0400
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: answering Doug.1 




Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Terrance,
> 
> You are not a fascist,
> and you're not the Pynchon-L moderator, either.


Pynchon-L doesn't have a moderator. I don't think it needs one. I have
never suggested that we need one. In fact, I have always opposed a
moderated list. 

You couldn't get the list to agree to your persistent requests for a
moderator. You argued that the list discussion deteriorated and was a
waste of time, but you hung around, you said, because you were reading
the posts here for a friend, looking for that diamond in the rough.     

> 
> Somebody -- it may have even been Musikar -- said on Pynchon-L a long time
> ago,before you got here, when somebody -- it may have even been me --
> complained that other P-listers weren't sticking to the topic, that this
> forum represents different things for different people, something to the
> effect that for some it's a genteel literary discussion focused on Pynchon
> and for others it's a balls-out drunken party for people who love Pynchon.
> In the past nearly 5 years, I've come to see the truth in that.

If you have come to see the truth in that it has only been in the last
few months. 
You were calling for a list moderator just a few months back. 


I'll provide the proof from the archives. 

I will reply to all your lies.

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