Pynchon's epideictic

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:54, barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Pynchon's epideictic
> 
> 
> > If the concepts cannot descend to the common plane, through common
> language,  they are too rarified for common usage.  Pynchon would never
> abandon the common realm.  It is his life blood.<
> 
> Nobody should ever have to stoop down to your level, David, just to make you
> feel good about yourself. I don't know what the fuck they're talking about
> either, but in instances like  these it's best we just shut up so maybe we
> learn something. We don't know what Pynchon's talking about half the time,
> but we still read him, don't we? And it's not like Paul Nightingale's been
> talking to a wall. Did you see the size of some of those threads?! They went
> on and on....
> Quit playing censor and let folks have their fun. In these times we need
> every bit of freedom we can get, don't you think?
> POWER TO THE P-LIST!
> Barbara


No question but that David Morris is a commanding figure in p-list
discussions.  Nevertheless it has to be judged country strange the way
in which he foments such fear and insecurity in Barbdougasloth.

P.