NP--Blood Meridian yet again (no "spoilers," G.Q.!!)

[Steve Maas]

It seems apparent that my use of “you folks” refers to the p-list subset 
that conducted a “discussion of a non-Pynchon book”--a subset of which I of 
course am no part.

Steve Maas

I wrote:
>_Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West_ is truly an
>astounding  book and a great one. Cormac McCarthy's method and
>his descriptive abilities in telling this horrendous story of despicable
>scum turns a chronicle of events as horrible as any into a thing of
>beauty. The book is not an empty intellectual exercise, but rather a
>stimulus to contemplation and examination. Oh, and it has arrows
>"lofting up in the blue" and then "suddenly gaining speed," not to
>mention pueblo dwellers with "preterite lives."

>I hope you folks do not begin another discussion of a non-Pynchon book on 
>the p-list. But if you must, you could do
>worse than _Blood Meridian_.

>Steve Maas

DM replied:
>Thanks for the endorsement of _Blood Meridian_, but please spare
>"us folks"  your hypocritical "hopes."  If you meant yo include yourself
>in the future direction of this list, you should say "we."  If not your
>hopes are selfishly hypocritical.

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