summing up

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, David Morris wrote:
> 
> Do you people really want to play with an asshole like this?

Wonder if someone has hinted to him what Pale Fire is about.

Might explain the above average level of twitchiness displayed..


P.


> 
> --- 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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