dropping Malign

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Doug, please, quit it with this guy!  He's a sink-hole of energy! You can
argue with him till you're blue in the face, and then he'll just turn around
and say, Well that wasn't my original point, so your whole argument is null
and void.  He's sickening!  I mean it.  He makes a person's bloodpressure
rise.  He's poison, Doug. Stay away from him!  Look at his name!!!

You know, I was right about some of them fellows being jealous of you: You
know that don't you?  Look at what he writes down there.  What he really
doesn't like about you, Doug--when you get right down to the nitty gritty,
he hates you because your prose is purpler and your mixing is higher-handed.
Silly me, I thought it was just a big rocket complex.

<In the end, you might find that that's more persuasive than your purple
> prose, over-heated rhetoric, and the loss of credibility resultant from
your
> high-handed mixing of fact and opinion.  It would be to me, at any rate.>>


----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: dropping food on mine fields


> <<Malign, you're still splitting hairs and trying to count angels dancing
on
> that pin head of yours. According to mainstream press reports the U.S. is
> dropping food on mine fields and aid workers at the scene say women and
> children will rush out to get the packages; if it hasn't happened already,
> it's safe to assume it will soon. >>
>
> I said earlier:
>
> I am not splitting hairs. You claim to be a journalist.  But you're
reporting
> things as facts that have not happened, for false, rhetorical ends.  I
said
> earlier:
>
> <<If/when such a thing happens--it may--consider yourself prophetic or
sage
> or commonsensisical or whatever.  In the meantime, since you claim to have
> this array of facts at your fingertips, you should stick to them.>>
>
> I also said:
>
> >
>
>
>