unreliable? in Vineland, nights in white satin ...

[Michael Joseph]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Terrance wrote:

>
> >
> > "rude update" is a lovely surprise, and conveys the creativity of the
> > hipster vernacular Pynchon is modeling. "update" substitutes for
> > "awakening," in the commonplace "rude awakening," and is appropriated from
> > the tubal culture _VL_ so excessively references.
>
> OK. We're all quite familiar with  McHale's "Zapping, the art of
> switching channels: on Vineland", right?
>
terence, this is the second time you seem to be accusing me of
appropriating somebody else's thoughts without bothering to make a
reference. In my culture, and I gather in the culture of many of the
readers of this list, that is a very serious charge. Can I ask you, where
the fuck do you get off doing this?



Michael