summing up

[David Morris]

Do you people really want to play with an asshole like this?

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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