(Nabokov-free) VLVL2 epigraph

[The Great Quail]

Professor Dougbote writes,

> A-and Big Bird is still as full of shit as a Christmas
> goose, 

Man, why do you have to pick on geese? This anti-birdism of yours really
needs to be addressed. But anyway, this will be my one and only direct reply
to you on this, as I have no desire to perpetuate your exasperating
narcissism. 

> 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.

Exactly! That sure gets my vote! An unrestricted reading by a bunch of
Pynchon fans!

> 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 love it when you, the anarcho-capitalist, the militant-peacenik, use army
allusions.... The many splendored paradox that is Doug...sigh.....

But anyway, you know what I was complaining about, so I'm not getting into
another Doug-Bizarro-World debate with you on this one.

By the way, have you read "Pale Fire?" I am just curious, this is not a
weighted question. You may have answered it before, but I don't recall.

>(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.)

Actually, I have never criticized someone for posting on an  off-Pynchon
topic. I have, however, criticized you for spamming the list with links to
propaganda, which is different; and I have criticized you for having the
nerve to criticize others for making off-topic posts, seeing as you are the
reigning King of NP. But critiques of browbeating and hypocrisy do not
equate to ire at off-topic posting.

> 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.

Lay off David, for heaven's sake! It's obvious you are just trying to wind
him up, so please, give it a break. And "tell" Sloth to give it a break,
too. David's made more many more interesting postings than both of you
lately, and your attempts to inflame him are just...childish.

--Big Bird