NPPF -- no need to relate to Pynchon . . . .?

[davemarc]

From: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
>
> --- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been impressed by the quality of the Nabokov/Pale Fire discussion
thus
> far, but I'm still puzzled as to why the discussion is taking place on
> pynchon-l.
>
> It's very simple:
>
> 1.  A good number of Pynchon fans onn the P-list are interested in reading
Pale
> Fire.

That doesn't explain why they aren't discussing it elsewhere -- or why they
feel it is so very important to discuss it here and nowhere else. (Note to
Charles and others: I really don't have an ax to grind here -- I'm mainly
mystified and curious.)
>
> 2.  Pynchon's taking a LONG time comming forward with his next book.

This is irrelevant.
>
> 3.  It was not very long ago that we did a VLVL (and where's your name on
that
> sign-up list?).

This is irrelevant.
>
> 4.  We did not decide to take your all-knowing advice.

I never claimed to be "all-knowing." I was merely one among another "good
number
of Pynchon fans [on] the P-list" who offered alternatives to the initial
proposal to merely hold a Nabokov discussion on the Pynchon list.
>
> 5.  You have a delete button.

So do all of us. I point out that the delete button can be used by would-be
*senders*
to delete messages that are off-topic or merely intended to vent anger. Such
a simple gesture would
spare hundreds of would-be pynchon-l recipients the effort of deleting over
and over
again.

d.