NP? Vineland (andf GR) echoes from a former (?) P-lister

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance wrote:

> Doug Millison wrote:
> >
> > One more quick one, then back to work.
> >
> > Unfortunately -- as you may have heard from Charles
> > Hollander (I've enjoyed email, snail mail, and phone
> > correspondence with him for several years  --
> > Pynchon-L is dominated these days by some neo-con
> > (with neo-Nazi leanings in one case, I suspect)
> > academics (one of them did his dissertation on Ayn
> > Rand and remains ensconced in that camp)who can't
> > stand to hear anybody say anything about Pynchon's
> > obvious anti-corporate, anti-fascist, progressive
> > politics (which shine through, imo, in M&D as strongly
> > as in GR,  although in some ways its a mellower work,
> > tempered with age, it seems to me).
>
> Doug, have you lost your mind?  The Pynchon list discussion is you and
> me and Bandwraith Robert and Otto and notes from Dave Monroe, with an
> occasional tid bit from our fine lawyer friend in the south, an
> occasional attempt to settle things or clarify things from John Bailey,
> list comments from Tim, Morris, Paul (who is apparently ill), and not
> much else.

Hi Terrance and everyone:

Actually my illness was only eyestrain.

P.