for Kevin's sake

[Terrance]

For Kevin's sake Kevin, get back to work.

What boots it with incessant CARE to 
get off  your high horse and stare
at Arcite and Palamon knee deep in bloody words? 

Bother. Oh Bother, Pooh Bear. Care Bear. Smarter than the average P-list
Bear out there. Pleaze and pretty please and gobs and goops of flying
elephants and fairy-tales dust down on my knees pleeeeeeze, for Kevin's
sake please .....  work, my man, work. 




Kevin Troy wrote:
> 
> "Man, what happened to you?  We used to be _beautiful_ together."
> --Sam Jackson's character in _Jackie Brown_
> 
> I've been taking notes and doing research for several short notes -- or
> maybe it will turn out to be one or two mid-length papers -- on PF and
> Pynchon.  For example, I'd like to examine the connections between
> paranoia and gnosticism in PF, Lot 49, and GR.  I guess my approach is
> similar to the "short paper" thing Dave Marc proposed, but I don't know,
> really, because I haven't actually done it yet....
> 
> But maybe I won't bother, now that the list has gone to hell.
> 
> Did Nabokov influence Pynchon?  You bet your sweet bippy he did.  Did PF,
> specifically, influence Pynchon, in a way that is evident in his works?
> Gee, I'd like to find out.  If that question is the general hypothosis of
> the NPPF (it is for me, at least, your mileage may vary) then obviously
> the first phase of the NPPF should be exploratory:  before demonstrating
> or proving any PF-Pynch connection, one has to get a sense of PF and the
> criticism surrounding it.
> 
> What Doug and (I'm surprised to find) Tim have been doing in the last few
> days is the e-mail of equivalent of poking someone on the shoulder every
> five minutes, asking "are we there yet?  Have we reached the Radiant Hour?
> Huh?  Huh?"  This, Tim, alienates me, your friendly neighborhood
> semi-lurker, far more than the prospect of an NP book being seriously and
> systematically analyzed on pynchon-l.
> 
> Pynchon-l has the opportunity to do something really great.  We (by which
> I mean "you suckers") have a choice of either
> 
> a)  Taking up the challenge and conducting simultaneous group reads of two
> well-crafted and difficult books, each of which has different merits, or
> b)  Kicking and screaming like a bunch of infants.
> 
> Your choice, kids.
> 
> Bye,
> Kevin T.