pynchon-l-digest V2 #2081

[John Lundy]

Fuck,  I've just joined this List and it is falling apart at the seams!

We could issue some kind of communique that future exchanges about the War 
on Terrorism or Beatniks or Towelheads or whatever it is supposed to be 
when you prepare to slaughter thousands of illiterate villagers for reasons 
that remain unclear to a simple guy like me be limited to offList 
correspondence.  That way, anyone who really felt the need to insult a 
fellow List member for having the temerity to have an opposing view could 
do it to their heart's content offList as long as the victim was a willing 
participant in the exchange.  (This idea would need to be ratified by the 
members of the List.  But would it need to be unanimous?  A two-thirds 
majority, a simple majority?  Just one Joe like me who says "What the fuck 
has cultural imperialism, racism and vengeance got to do with the works of 
the greatest authorial voice of our times?"  And who would decide?  I 
suppose we could vote on that, too.

But in the interests of saving the List, I'm going to run this up the 
flagpole and see if it salutes:  I'm calling for the ban.  Have I got a 
seconder?  Everybody barred from discussing anything except M & D.  That 
is, apart from Babs.  If I missed Babs talking about cum sliding down the 
willing throat of supine democracy or whatever it was that she said I 
couldn't bear it.

There needs to be an exception that proves the rule.

Some things, even in times like these, especially at times like these, are 
sacrosanct.

Well?


On Wednesday, 26 September 2001 15:33, Terrance 
[SMTP:lycidas2 at earthlink.net] wrote:
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> "How come everybody thinks we're fighting for Freedom?!  If that not the
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> Gee, I thought we were trying to get people to stick around for M&D.
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> Can you spell unsubscribe pynchon-l?
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> Maybe Doug is finally right, the Pynchon list ain't what it used to be.