Pynchon-l and Nabokv-l lists

[Dave Monroe]

In football you wear a helmet.

In baseball you wear a cap.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml

--- Mondegreen <gwf at greenworldcenter.org> wrote:
>
> "I come not to bother, but to annoy."
>     Jesus, in The Gospel According to Saint Eureen
> 
> The digests of the Pynchon-l list are being posted
> on the Nabokov-l list for the duration of the Pale
> Fire discussion, and this intersection of the
> lists prompts a comparison.
> 
> The Nabokov list must have a higher ratio of
> professionals to amateurs, there no doubt being
> more Nabokov professionals than Pynchon
> professionals, and so it has more queries and
> responses of a technical scholarly nature. It also
> naturally has an international makeup and
> cosmopolitan flavor.
> 
> The Nabokov list is moderated, co-moderated
> actually, by two professionals, i.e. professors of
> literature, who have Nabokov's writings as a
> specialty.  They're critics. Good ones.
> 
> The Nabokov forum has a dress code. Being moderated,
> it has no flames, which is refreshing. (What are
> all they all about??) But the Nabokov list also
> lacks free-ranging discussion, and the ambience is
> therefore more impersonal and uh stiff. No horsing
> around. No getting to know each other as people
> over a beer at the end of the day. The
> professionals are (I think this is fair, yes?)
> wary and, speaking for myself at least, so
> therefore are the amateurs. Subscribing is not
> like sitting around in the neighborhood pub or
> café, but attending or participating in an academic
> forum.
> 
> A significant shortcoming, in my view, of the
> requirement to keep posts sqarely on-topic is the
> result that the Nabokov forum cannot function as a
> civic space. In these parlous times, with
> intelligent civic discussion systematically
> excluded from the mass media, and, let's face it,
> with Big Brother already here, in my opinion we
> should be using any and every opportunity to
> nurture and enliven our civic life.
 
[...]

> Anyway, to summarize: over there, where the average
> age of the posters is no doubt older than it is
> here, the ground rules favor more dignity but less
> fun. AFAIAC both is better.

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on,
personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary
roughness.

Baseball has the sacrifice.

http://home.earthlink.net/~sscutchen/baseball/Quotes/baseball_vs_football.htm

http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/carlin.html

http://www.bbsv.de/carlin.htm

Thanks, I think we can all see ourselves refracted
through one facet or another (or more) of that gem ...

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