summing up

[pynchonoid]

It's heartening to see so many people willing to
continue the discussion of Pynchon's works on
Pynchon-L.  

Too bad the Pale Fire group couldn't see a way to
propose a discussion that would have a Pynchon focus. 
davemarc offered a good suggestion, but it was,
predictably, ignored.  

It's nice to see some of the "off topic" P-list
hypocrites exposed.  People who are willing to move
the PYNCHON-L focus from Pynchon to Nabokov are going
to be difficult to take seriously when they try to
make an "off-topic" argument in the future. 

Who would have believed that fq could sink even lower?
 But, by badgering people who expressed an interest in
continuing with a Pynchon discussion on Pynchon-L, and
turning the past couple of days into a brain-dead
horse race, that's just what this clown has done. 

On the horse race tip, it's also been gratifying to
see that the handful of people who have dominated the
P-list discussion for so long don't in fact speak for
the far larger number of P-list subcribers and
participants. It's only by shouting these folks down,
rewriting and distoring their posts and tying the
discussion in knots, that fq and his Inner Circle have
been able to dominate the discussion, like thugs
dispatched to break up a meeting.

There appears to be a need for a moderated P-list so
that the people who are interested in discussion
Pynchon can do so without having to endure the
taunting and hectoring of folks like fq.  A moderated
list -- if it proved to be a lively discussion, and of
course a moderated list can be lively and interesting
-- might also provide a forum that would attract more
serious Pynchon readers.  I would be interested in
helping to set up a moderated discussion group that
would be devoted to Pynchon.





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