Form Letter

[Dave Monroe]

By "(self-)reflexive/self-referential final sentence"
I meant, er, "(self-)reflexive/self-referential final
sentence."  The sentence, not its author.  Nothing
personal intended towards the latter.  But "enshrouded
in obfuscatory pap and/or rancour in order to give
them a fool's gold glimmer of authoritativeness" IS
rather, well, "enshrouded in obfuscatory pap and/or
rancour in order to give [it] a fool's gold glimmer of
authoritativeness."  The passage cited is not only NOT
uncharacteristic of frequent bouts of "obfuscatory pap
and/or rancour" 'round these parts, on the part of
several posters on any given end of any given dispute,

but is a prime example of what it ostensibly condemns,
"accus[ing some]one else of what [it it]self is
invariably guilty of."  Irony.  And note that I did
NOT type "hypocrisy."   Generalized, rather than
personalized.  By the way, I had to look up "niveau." 
You learn something new every day at the Pynchon List.
 Which is why I keep coming back ...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> Below your niveau, Dave.

But there will, er, "invariably" be those who will
disagree.  Seriously, though, no offense intended, to
Robert or anyone else involved.  I would think that at
least a few of us might recognize ourselves and our
foibles, fallibilities, and just plain fuck-ups in
said passage.  Again, something always to be learned ...

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