pynchon-l-digest V2 #2197

[Paul Mackin]

David is certainly correct. No point in reasoning with Doug, hasn't been for
a long time. And yes the desire to mock him is almost irresistable much of
the time. As to the motivation for his persistence one is tempted to say
self punishment but who can know.  That he has too much free time on his
hands is another problem. A problem for many of us myself included. I think
the most constructive idea on the p-list lately has been from MalignD who
recognized a spark of confusion the other day in his otherwise fanatical
stance against the course of America. This humanized him for me because I'm
constantly feeling similar confusions.

            P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2197


>
> >From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> >Don Corathers wrote:
> > > I have tried to stay out of the current acrimonious conversation,
partly
> >because I am comfortable in my long-time lurker status and partly because
> >it seems to me that arguing with Doug is an enormous waste of energy. But
I
> >grow weak. For
> > > the record:
> >
> >Don't bother. You will only get frustrated and called nasty names.
> >
> >Doug/Barb  loves to get gang banged.
> >
> >MalignD sticks a wedge in every fallacy, cracks the rhetoric, sends all
> >of Doug/Barbara's posts to the garbage heap where they belong.
> >
> >The rest of us should not play Doug's gang-bang game.
>
> For the sake of this list, I am more and more inclined to follow
Terrance's
> advice here.  Doug/Barbara is sometimes an irresistable target, but that
> seems to be his intention.  Quail has amply shown that clear and polite
> response to the points of Doug/Barbara's posts results not in dialoge but
in
> personal rancor.  Doug's goal is not discussion, but attention.
>
>
>
>
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