Wrong-headed & The Snipers

[Judy Panetta]

Aloft, it's serene and so cozy
It's no doubt that the world looks so rosy.
The towers of ivory
And the comfort of ivy
Yields an unbearable urge to be prosy.

So for discussions relating to art
The usual suspects take part.
Volumes footnoted
By egos so bloated
With no reference to matters of heart.

Now politics will ensure us a treat
So riveting, it begs a repeat.
Whether it's Chomsky or Horowitz
There's bound to be moral fits
With a raucous loud chorus of bleats
 
Ah, now hippos are brought to the block
With fish in a water filled crock
Afraid that their gender
Is perceived as too slender
For we know it is all about... 

Goodnight fellas.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of Terrance Flaherty
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:44 PM
> To: MalignD at aol.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Wrong-headed & The Snipers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> > It is entertaining, however.
> 
> 
> Thank goodness for that! 
> 
> Now what? 
> 
> It began with a simple question by Otto about 
> Slavery. KWP gave a
> simple, if not very helpful answer: read Weber's 
> PE&SC. I asked KWP, 
> "what has PE&SC to do with slavery and if Weber 
> takes up slavery in that
> famous book. KWP said something about Sin and 
> Catholicism and
> Protestantism. I replied in kind with a muddled 
> and wrong-headed and
> mostly incorrect post.  You came running to the 
> pit with your rifle and
> shot at my barrel of trout. The point you made at 
> the middle of your
> post was the only one that was worth making. Her 
> is what you said, 
> 
> One should bear in mind when speaking of 
> Protestantism that it is not a
> > singular entity like Catholicism.  The place of 
> work derives not from Luther,
> > rather from Calvin, and it is fundamentally 
> different from the Catholic idea.
> 
> I said I was OK with your corrections and that 
> what you said was true. I
> know the book real well MalignD. Really I do.  
> But I was not so
> comfortable with your sniping and so I bitched 
> about it and I played
> around with you and entertained you. I did not 
> make a  spectacle of
> myself and I have no regrets  because this is the 
> Pynchon List. This is
> the list where a sagacious old man like yourself 
> advises young eggheads
> not to waste their time. Not bad advice.
> 
>