Foreword, the inevitable backlash

[Dave Monroe]

I post something, Robert makes some oblique or
otherwise complaint about it, you 'n' Morris 'n' maybe
even Terrance these days rush in, y'all, not much
wanting to deal with, here, elsewhere, unmistakable
political commentary on Pynchon's part, any reasonably
direct commentary on Pynchon's part (or is it just the
fact that I've been fielding the prose pieces here? 
Rob of course'll badmouth anything with any hint of my
stamp on it--and speaking of my stamps, the offer
still stands, have copy ready to go, all I need is an
address) write it off as "bad writing" or whatever,
start in instead on, at best, whatever might have been
the object of Pynchon's attention, rather than on what
Pynchon might be hinting at, revealing, whatever,
about, well, Pynchon, meanwhile maintaining a second
front (yes, yes, military trope here, sorry) on, if
not something else entirely, something else that's a
surefire bickering point for the self-enclosed boys'
club that seems to take itself as THE List (be careful
bandying about those "we"s), and so forth ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 03:47, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> > You guys are all about the avoidance, aren't you? 
> > But's it's all fallen into the usual pattern so
> > far,  so ... so it's Pynchon, deal with it ...
> 
> Huh?

Though you missed a golden opportunity here ...

"What?" --Richard M. Nixon ...

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