NP? Vineland (andf GR) echoes from a former (?) P-lister
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 19 16:19:50 CDT 2002
Doug Millison wrote:
>
> Except for nearly 300 lurkers (you could look it up), not all of whom care
> for (so they tell me offlist) the word games that predominate so much of
> the time these days.
Well the lurkers should do the only thing that can possibly make the
list more what they want it to be. No, not send off-list e-mails to
Doug. No, not flame the people trying to have a discussion.
Post something about the topic they are interested in. Start a thread.
That's how it works.
>
> Sorry if I hurt anybody's feelings. Then again, if the shoe fits, wear it.
> If the shoe doesn't fit, do something else with the shoe.
Hurt feelings? No Doug, this is not a birthday party. It's an internet
list and what you post here doesn't hurt people's feelings. What you are
doing now is not about anyone else having hurt feelings. What you are
doing is attempting to draw the list attention to your concerns. You
will, obviously, use all means necessary and available to accomplish
your objective. If every time you called Robert a neo-nazi fascist his
feeling got hurt, you would stop. Wouldn't you? Of course you would.
You're not here to hurt people.
I'm tired of
> seeing Pynchon twisted into a neo-con (or worse) pretzel by mealy-mouthed
> wanna-be literary theorists eager to make my favorite author into a
> supporter of multinational corporations and the Bush
> war-oneverybody-who-doesn'-kiss-US-butt-today (last year doesn't count,
> what have they done for US lately).
Yup, you have lost it.
> Ask Otto why Mr. St. Clair got involved in the discussion. Or perhaps
> you'd care to see some of the crank email Otto's been sending me, too,
> offlist.
No thanks.
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