Slow Leaner Intro (was

[jbor]

Seems to me that you're the one who's complaining, "bitching", being
"sniffy" (Etc. Ad nauseam.) whenever I post.

Nothing in my post below which was directed at you, to you, particularly for
you. If you didn't like it then why not just delete it, ignore it, refuse to
engage with it. Etc. No reason at all to (continue to) attack me personally.

I'm more than happy to go back to ignoring you altogether, have been trying
to, in fact, if only you'd do me the exact same courtesy.



on 29/11/02 5:28 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Keeping in mind that I generally work with the printed
> page rather than the phosphorescent screen ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> A link posted by Otto back in August (Pynchon-L even
>> gets a nod), this undergrad. essay is a good
>> illustration of how insightful and relevant
>> post-structuralist/postmodernist literary criticism
>> can sometimes be:
>> 
>> http://www2.unl.ac.uk/~rpb001/pynchon1.htm
> 
> Well, this I recall, but it deosn't really deal in the
> main with that "Introduction," now, does it?  But,
> hey, if yr demanding a citation of each and eve'ry
> mention of it somewhere or another, well, hey, give me
> a minute or two, we'll seee what I can whip up ...
> 
> The following link I recall, if not actually posting,
> at least planning to post myself, may even have during
> our "moderated" week or so, things went missing, went
> forgotten ... 
> 
>> Here also, despite the typos in the last para, a
>> cogent summary and analysis of the 'Intro':
>> 
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/slowlearner/slowintr.html
> 
> But rather more a summary than an analysis, no?  The
> "analysis," the "loosening," the "breaking up" here
> more an epiphenomenon of the summation than any sort
> of overt critical commentary.  No great loss (and now
> it's found, so ...) ...
> 
> But, hey, if yr complaining now that I simply wasn't
> comprehensive enough, well, again, yr simply
> complaining in order to complain.  Either I post too
> much or too little, either I'm too comprehensive or
> not comprehensive enough, so forth and so on, et
> cetera, et alia, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, shantih
> shantih shantih achoo.  Little Red Riding syndrome, if
> I may coin an affliction.  But really more just
> complaining because I'm posting, complaining to
> complain.  Yadda yadda yadda, amen ...
>