antw. Whither the P-List?

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 ° speaking for me, myself & eye i seem to remember that someone asked to read 
 together a book being one of pynchon's main sources: "the education of henry   
 adams" is such a book. when i suggested to do this, there were two list-members 
 agreeing (plus the somehow undecided dave monroe). in case of interest i 
 prepare the schedule (EHAEHA) and take the chapters v, xvii and xxv myself. 

 would also read with you moby dick, pale fire (which contains a birds & tv   
 passage later echoed in vineland) or the holy bible.

 while vineland (which i also read as a belated personal epilogue to gr) is ok  
 too, i have - yawn - no interest in doing slsl.   


 kiss-kiss: kai (voracious elitist asshole)°


Steve Maas schrieb:

> Speaking, of course, only for myself....
>
> This list comprises folks of all stripes, with one common interest. If I 
> were a betting man, I’d give good odds that a detailed discussion of a book 
> by any other writer is going to be of interest to no more than a handful of 
> members.
>
> I realize that some of you may respond, "but only a handful participates 
> anyhow." Beyond the obvious--that, just possibly, more would contribute if 
> not for the expectation that a few voracious posters will jump on and/or 
> attack and/or ridicule and/or dominate the discussion, and attempt to use 
> any point raised to prop up their own particular hobbyhorse, no matter how 
> rickety and termite-ridden--even beyond that, it is not fitting that the 
> occasional poster and the self-selected preterite who never post should be 
> subject to the hijacking of the p-list to discuss Pale Fire, or Moby Dick, 
> or the Holly Bibble, or The Cat in The Hat, or Stupid White Men, or Slander, 
> or <your favorite here>.
>
> Now, Gould’s Book of Fish, on the other hand, or Catch 22.... (that's a 
> joke, son).
>
> Steve Maas
>