re Re: MDDM Ch. 30 Dolly

[Doug Millison]

Good luck, my friend.  Mackin and "fqmorris at hotmail.com" have argued for a
long time now that I'm any number of P-listers -- Dave Monroe, Barbara,
etc., even while carrying on separate offlist email exchanges with those
folks! Now that's funny, don't you think?  I know it makes me chuckle every
time I think about it, and I wish you could see my smile right now.  I
expect it keeps them out of greater mischief, so I'm glad they have this
little hobby (and I suspect they may even be pulling my leg with their
jibes, just trying to get a rise out of me, they way that little kids like
to do sometimes when they're bored and can't find anything better to do).
I continue to believe it is unfortunate that they choose to make this their
focus on Pynchon-L instead contributing to the discussion of Pynchon -- but
I know better than to hope for more than baby steps in that direction, I
just try to keep the faith that one day they will choose to focus on
Pynchon instead of on these anonymous email pests, and so forth.

I think the P-list regulars know I have never been shy about making some
fairly aggressive remarks here in the past, under my own name -- in fact,
that's one of the reasons I'm trying to keep things friendly these days,
too much time wasted with all that negativity. I understand that others,
like "fqmorris at hotmail.com", for some reason need to shield themselves
behind anonymous email accounts, and that's fine, too -- if that makes
somebody happy, that's good enough for me.  Terrance (no stranger to the
email personae game, one which he seems to enjoy a great deal, bless his
heart) is right:  Stick to the book.  Ignore these anonymous pests --
present company excluded, of course ;)

-Doug


bandwraith:
Check the time signatures.


In a message dated 1/25/02 3:13:45 PM, paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:

<< It's no trouble to tell hotmail.com that you live in the U.K., or any place
else.

P.

 >>




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