Cut price politics

[Terrance]

prozak at anus.com wrote:
> 
> > OK. Mike. You win. This is stupid. You cut and paste and edit my on and
> > offlist posts to win an argument? Ok. You win. Don't ever contact me
> > offlist again.
> >
> > Fact is, just this month I
> > posted excerpts from three books on Pynchon's politics. Over the years
> > I've focused on Pynchon's politics as much as any other Pynchon subject.
> > But I don't care to discuss the news here. I don't want political spam.
> 
> Guys...
> 
> We're trolling each other here.
> 
> I think it's impossible to have a Pynchon list without politics,
> especially in a time like now.
> 
> Weird holy war in Iraq - money changing hands in shady ways - multi-
> national corporations getting stronger? Personal "freedoms" and
> "liberties" eroded? Sudden presence of strong religiously-based gov't
> in the USA?
> 
> Paranoia. Panic. Perversity.
> 
> Pynchon.

Again, of course we can't have a Pynchon list without politics. No one
has said that they want to or that we can. But we can't have a Pynchon
list without Pynchon. And we should not turn this list over to the those
that want to make it a chat room clique for discussing and debating the
political issue in the headlines. We can all read the newspapers. We can
all debate and discuss the political issues in the headlines elsewhere.
This is the only Pynchon list. When people subscribe to this list they
come here expecting to discuss Pynchon. But if Pynchon is not being
discussed because the political issues of the day are being discussed in
a chat room calling itself a Pynchon list, people lurk and leave. You've
participated on other lists. So have I. In fact, I'm on several lists
with several members of this list. This is the only list where a chat
room for political debate dominates discussion. It needs to stop. Sorry.
This is the Pynchon List.