the need to impersonate

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I resent what you say here, Paul.  I didn't study at the Doug School of
On-line Journalism;  I studied English Lit at a regular American university
where a fine lot of professors taught me how to READ. The rest of my rants
here have to do with 9/11 and what I learned from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's
Rainbow, which I just so happened to be reading when the tragedy struck.  A
political science professor had recommended I read it; he said it inspired
him so much he considers it to be of biblical importance.  How could I pass
a recommendation like that?  And I knew Pynchon was good because I read him
once in class.  Whatever I've written on this list since then is a
reflection of what I learned  from reading that book. Don't drag Doug into
it.  I have my own mind; it should be evident to you by now.

'The need to impersonate.' I wonder what that means. God, I hate to think.
Pimple-faced boy? Talk about tired old answers...

Quail, I never said I'd have Jbor stop *reading* Pynchon, Heavens no.
Honestly, I wish he'd read it till his eyes and nose itched up like Pokler's
when he came to realize his part in the scheme of things.  I want Jbor to
read it till he's blue in the face and has nowhere left to hide himself.  I
sincerely wish that.  But in the meantime, I wish he'd stop shitting on the
man's work.  I won't raise a Jihad against him or anything, but I'm gonna
squawk when he does it because it's disrespectful to a man who deserves our
respect, and it's a cheap shot since it's never backed up by anything the
man has written.

Squawk!

Barbara



----- Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: the need to impersonate


>
> > From: "The Great Quail" <quail at libyrinth.com>
> >> Barbara, you are just kidding around, right? Do you really think jbor
> >> is "blasphemous," and you wish him to stop reading Pynchon? Don't you
> >> think this is just a little, well, fanatical? You are kidding, right?
> >
>
> Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:
> > Barbara studied at the Doug School of Online Journalism. Are you
kidding? is
> > not the right question. There are no right questions. No questions, only
> > tired old answers. The practitioner of online journalism hasn't invested
> > much. Therefore anything goes. He can always close down and start up
again
> > tomorrow.

> Jbor:
> It's like sticking a pin into _GR_ and quoting passages at random as if it
> were the _Bible_. It comes across like the ranting of an insane person,
or,
> an "insane persona" being worked up by a pimple-faced boy.
>
> best
>