Gaddis and Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

Aboredbowler at aol.com wrote:

> isn't it funny how a personal attack just isn't the same
> when you can't post it to a whole bunch of people who
> really couldn't care less about malignd berating doug,
> or the other way around. 
>
> i mean, they could keep this discussion private, and all
> of the objectives of their comments would be fulfilled
> because they don't pertain to anyone else who might
> read them, but then there would be some ineffable
> wrongness we all might feel. 

I humbly disagree.  Things like calling a pompous gasbag "a pompous 
gasbag" are completely wasted on the pompous gasbag himself but have 
been a  treat for me and I assume many other p-listers..

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