Sloth and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Malign has his/her  own hagiographic tendencies, I see.  We all have our
favored hobby-horses, don't we.

><< Pale Fire is a fine, fun book, too. >>
Malign:
>Pale Fire is far more than that.


Otto,
You do an excellent job with English, infinitely better than I could in
German (which I don't speak or read).  My objection is when your
misunderstanding of a nuance here or there sends you off on a Quixotic
crusade to slander me with accusations of lying and dishonesty, when the
simple fact is that you haven't clearly understood the English expressions
in play -- as in the "freeloading" and "hand-out" example yesterday. I
suggest that before you start slinging accusations at somebody based on
diction, make sure you know what you're talking about first.

Otherwise, I continue to be amazed at how well you seem to understand the
literary theory you seem to have read in English, or perhaps in German with
help from translations -- and your grasp of Pynchon's English, whose
writing is complex and demanding; at any rate, good job.