(Nabokov-free) VLVL2 epigraph

[pynchonoid]

Man's best friend, indeed.  Once you step outside the
bounds of European/American culture, sentimentalizing
dogs isn't quite so common. (That's why, I've heard,
that Iraqis don't like having US soldiers come in with
dogs to search their homes -- if I understand
correctly, dogs are considered unclean.) Finally, in
addition to all the wonderful things that have been
said here about dogs, they're considered good eating
in many parts of the world.

Meanwhile back at Rancho Netiquette....

As expert as Keith is with his own childish put-downs
he is indeed qualified to point it out when others do
it, although it makes him look more than a little
hypocritical.  He can dish it out, but just can't take
it, I guess.  

A-and Big Bird is still as full of shit as a Christmas
goose, or perhaps he truly doesn't remember that this
is PYNCHON-L and that the Nabokov reading was marketed
as a project that would illuminate Pynchon. davemarc's
sensible suggestions have been more or less ignored. 
Instead, we're getting just what Keith asked for, a
reading of a Nabokov novel with no particular effort
to relate it to the raison d'etre (Pynchon) of this
discussion group.  All in good fun, of course, and
perhaps something interesting about Pynchon will
eventually emerge from the Nabokov reading. 

Meanwhile, this remains the P-list, and if 
Big Bird can't handle people wondering how a
particular post relates to Pynchon -- well, as they
say in the Army, "That sounds like a personal problem,
soldier. Take it to the chaplain." (I don't suppose
Big Bird and Keith and a few others have ever
criticized anybody here for posting something they
thought unrelated to Pynchon?  But of course they
have, and what flaming hypocrites they are.)

Still, it's worth it just to watch Morris try to bluff
his way through a Nabokov novel he hasn't read. Almost
as much fun as listening him trying to make sense of
Pynchon. It's spine-tingling, man.




 

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