Cut price politics

[Mike Weaver]

Past its Tel by date

> >So, when Mike Weaver says I hate Pynchon's politics
> >he's wrong. As I've explained to him several times I don't hate
> >Pynchon's politics or want to silence a discussion of Pynchon's politics
> >here.

"several times"????
Sorry, I  exaggerated too - here's what you wrote.

 >Are you kidding? I disagree with most of Pynchon's stupid politics and
 >his ridiculous and naive reading of a American culture and history.
 >Basically. i think TRP is an ass hole. actually, i could care less about
 >him. everything i learn about him is u pleasant. He's still an always
 >will be, a great Americans novelist, but that's about all.

> >Facts are, I've brought more to this list, in books, reviews,
> >essays, articles, dissertations, etc., on Pynchon's politics than anyone
> >else. I just think this is a Pynchon list and we should focus on
> >Pynchon.

Fetishist - sniffing his literary shoes.

You have offered (as tablets of stone) your take on P's politics more than 
anyone else, and backed it up with texts that support that view. Not all of 
us here are regular litcrit readers and some of us want to look at the 
world with reference to P's perspectives as we understand them. Since this 
isn't a classroom  we don't have to keep dragging the man himself in as a 
referent - we can riff on his themes. As long as there are people on the 
list engaging with you on the level you want, then you've a place on the 
list - and the same for anyone of the rest of us.
You''ve  been near the centre of several of the nastiest flame fests of the 
last two years. That behaviour also drives people away. Motes and beams Tel 
and dang yankee arrogance.

Weavertowearer
and out


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