MDDM Ch. 70 Prolegomena

[Doug Millison]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Why don't you let Terrance speak for himself (if you
> think that's
> important), I was addressing him in that post.

If you're addressing somebody privately, why post it
to the list at large? (And, I'm happy to take this
offlist if you'd like, assuming you feel you've scored
enough points in front of your list buddeies)-- but I
gotta tell you, 

I observe that Mr T has no problem whatsover speaking
for himself and he will undoubtedly let me know if I
overstep my bounds. I also observe that every time I,
or Terrance, mention something jbor has posted, you
automatically speak up to tell us what jbor has or
hasn't said.  I find that pretty funny, maybe it's
just some kind of tic on your part.

> 
> But for me it's ok that *you* ask. My answer:
> serious scholarly discussion
> about literature sometimes requires a little bit of
> "jargon". 

Only if you want to confine your conversation to
people who understand the jargon. It's a way of
keeping outsiders on the outside -- a common trait
among so-called "experts" (the real experts usually
take care to speak in a way that lets others take part
and contribute their perspectives) anxious to keep
some sort of special or privileged status for
themselves. Your choice, of course. 


>Why don't you
> criticise Terrance who says one has to be a Gnostic
> specialist to understand
> Pynchon in full.

Because I don't want to and because you seem to have a
monopoly on that particular franchise. 

Still flame-free,
Doug



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