Is Pynchonoid AKA

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> You'll fit right in with Morris, Mackin, Terrance, and
> Otto, it seems -- they have a hard time finding
> something to write about besides me, too.  

Oh  Scoop. Paul is a pretty smart old man and he can read the
newspapers. I'm sure he can afford to have several papers delivered to
his home and so he doesn't need you tossing your rags on his porch. And
he's much smarter than you, Doug. And much better read.  That pisses you
off. MalignD probably read more novels then you by the time he left the
second grade. That pisses you off too. You can't stand to read anything
lit-crit or anything too dense. Can't quite figure out why Dave Monroe
is constantly coming to your rescue because the bibliographies, notes
and excerpts he provides to this list are exactly the stuff you can't
stand. You honestly believe that the only worthy approach to Pynchon is
the conspiracy/political read. There is a great line in the movie Good
Will Hunting where the kid tells the shrink that he reads all the wrong
books. Think about that. The kid also tells the shrink that a few
hundred dollars in over-due fines at at the public library is all it
cost him to get an education. Think about this too, you can't control
what is to become of Pynchon. Critics will twist and turn him as the
academic winds blow. That's how it goes. It has been the case for every
writer worth reading for some time and it will be more so I think in the
future. So give it up. Also, I get all the newspapers you deliver here
for free. Had to laugh at Monroe's defense of you one day when he
suggested I check out the New York papers. Hello! They're downstairs
piled in the lobby of my building, dozens of them. And they are free.
And reading them on paper is better for my eyes. We don't need Cockburn
jammed down our throats from the newsboy on the Pynchon List. We can
read the guy if we want to. And not only in the Guardian you deliver. So
stop. You read GR when it was published and you may have some good
insights about some of the possible resonances in that novel, but even
you if do, you have never been able to convince anyone here (well,
certain conspiracy theorists will applaud anything you can say that
makes them feel anti-American american and these same jerks, like you
and JBframe have absolutely no tolerance for the serious critiques of
america coming from our non-american friends on list) that what you are
so very sure Pynchon is talking about is in his novels. Bananas? What
about them? You don't know. If you did, you would tell us, but all you
do is quote the book like some evangelical bible thumper and link up a
bunch of googled conspiracy e-texts.  

"Oh! but but but Pynchon reads the Guardian and the Observer and the
Voice says...."

Yeah, we know Doug, we can read those too. 


And stop trying to create a cartoon of right-wing conservative
boot-licking fascists. It's not working. Well, I'm playing into it to
amuse poor JBframe, but god, please, wake up and smell the shit your
dumping on us. 

Stop, prevent, end, the wars, wherever they are. 

PS Doug, have you ever been to Brazil? Or any CA or SA nation?