no more hate mail, please

[Simon Bryquer-RR]

Mr. Millison --

I don't know why, can't explain it, but I am struck by a newly born
psychic notion that because things have become so convoluted in your mind --
I
get the distinct feeling you are projecting your feelings onto others. I
sense a maniacal chaos building behind your words.

If I were you I would really take a long moment to reflect upon my thoughts
and actions, increasingly as of late,  and ask myself a few questions before
making any decisions.

Simon Bryquer








----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Cc: <doug at millison.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: no more hate mail, please


> Terrance,
>
> Just stop writing posts that feature me as the victim of beatings, rapes,
> homicide, etc., and things will be fine.  It's easy enough to ignore the
> other things you write on Pynchon-L.
>
> Rather than let your distortions and lies, posted earlier today, stand
> unchallenged, I reiterate my requests to you.  I hope the list owner will
> see this in that light, and not interpret it as an attack on you -- I had
> to leave to take care of some business while the list owner's email came
in
> on Pynchon-L, but I'm going to send this anyway.  If not, so be it.
>
> I ask you never to telephone me again, and to stop sending your hate mail
> to my email box.  I can't stop your spewing on Pynchon-L, of course.
Since
> you know where I live, if you continue with the hate mail and threatening
> messages, I will do what I have to do to make sure our home here does not
> become the scene of some stalker tragedy.  Call me paranoid if you will,
or
> worse, but I'll take the chance of over-reacting if it prevents you from
> following through on your violent fantasies about me.  I have a family to
> consider as well. You have a reputation as an unpredictable and unstable
> person; knowing that, I feel justified in taking these actions, no matter
> what a handful of misguided P-listers might have to say about them -- it
> may be, as some people say, that you are no more than a nuisance, and it
> may be that you have crossed the line and represent a different kind of
> potential, I don' know, I'm not taking any chances.
>
> You also might want to consider not making other  P-listers the focus of
> your violent fantasies as well. In particular, I've heard that your ugly
> misogyny makes it unpleasant for some women to take part in the Pynchon-L
> discussion.
>
> I don't expect there will be any more OFFLIST email between us -- that is,
> if you honor my many requests and stop sending me email directly -- so
> there won't be any need to hope that you might keep that OFFLIST and spare
> yourself further embarrassment.
>
> You appear to be as disturbed and unpredictable as you were on the phone
> when you called me -- perhaps more so -- and as I have heard you described
> by several other people.  I urge you to get the help you need, and to stop
> harassing and threatening me.   Because we have had a personal connection
> in the past, I do hope that you manage to work through whatever it is that
> causes you to fantasize about raping, beating, killing the people you
> interact with on Pynchon-L and elsewhere.  That you persist in calling
that
> sort of extreme behavior jokes or word play strikes me as pathetic.  (The
> same goes for your fellow participants in that sort of "word play" on
> Pynchon-L.)
>
> The people who applaud your behavior on Pynchon-L might wish to reconsider
> what they want to encourage, but I don't expect that tiny -- and,
> ultimately, insignificant -- contingent to do so.
>
> I do apologize if anything I have posted on Pynchon-L in the past has
> contributed in any way to your present behavior.  At the same time, you
> appear to have the ability to control your actions when you choose to do
> so, so I'm happy to let you be responsible for what you choose to do and
> say from now on.
>
> On to SLSL.  I observe you didn't sign up to host a session, and I hope
> your contribution doesn't continue to be more of the same vile fantasies
> you have written about me.  Post as much Melville as you like, however,
> he's a favorite author of mine, even if you never do manage to make any
> sort of intelligible or convincing connection  between the huge Melville
> passages you post and Pynchon's text -- although you may also wish to join
> Ishmail or another online Melville discussion group to discuss Melville's
> work.  Ishmail is not likely to welcome your assault and rape fantasies,
> however, judging from the discussion among that group.
>
> Sincerely,
> Doug Millison
>
> P.S.  In a separate email which I will not post here, I told "Monica
> Belevan" there was no need for her to withdraw from Pynchon-L, I said the
> same thing to "her" (if indeed the person using that anonymous @hotmail
> email account to post to me and to Pynchon-L has anything to do with an
> actual Monica Belevan somewhere, and isn't just the latest in the series
of
> hoaxes that you and others have played out on Pynchon-L; I heard from
"her"
> offlist just minutes after receiving one of your offlist emails to me
> today) that I say to you:  just stop making me the object of violent
> fantasies on Pynchon-L, don't send me any hate mail, and we'll have no
> further cause for action.
>
>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:17:21 -0500
> From: Terrance <lycidas2@[omitted]>
> To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
> Subject: Re: second warning
>
>
> DELETE this now,
>
> [...]
>
>
>
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> http://www.Online-Journalist.com
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