victory Gin

[Otto]

How can one not forgive a creative mind like yours, Terrance.
Real artists should have a bad character, and you really have a way with
words.

Hey, I wrote my first Haiku yesterday:

Pferdemarktkreisel
Samstagnachmittag im Mai
Stadtinsel in grün

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchonoid at pynchonoid.org>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: victory Gin
>
>
> pynchonoid wrote:
> >
> > --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> >
> > Just passing along a bit of advice that all drinkers
> > might want to know about.  Public service, nothing to
> > get your bowels in an uproar about, good buddy.
>
> I am very sensible what a weakness and presumption it is to reason
> against the general humour and disposition of  Pynchonoid & Co.  After
> reading P's Foreword to _1984_ I am reminded that it was with great
> justice, and a due regard to the freedom both of  public internet lists
> and  online journalism, forbidden upon severe penalties to write or
> discourse, or lay wages against the Pynchon or against the opinions of
> the Pynchon, even before it was confirmed by Pynchonoid & Co. that the
> Pynchon had composed and would publish a Foreword to Orwell's classic,
> because such discourse was looked upon as a design to oppose the current
> of the P-list people (most of them lurking in the hallways of Pynchonoid
> & Co.), which, besides the folly of it, is a manifest breach of the
> fundamental law that makes this majority of opinion the very voice of
> Big Brother. In like manner, and for the very same reasons it may
> perhaps be neither safe nor prudent to argue against Pynchonoid & Co. at
> a juncture when all parties appear so unanimously determined to upon
> supporting them, as we cannot but allow from their discourses and
> writings. However, I know no how, whether from the affection of
> singularity or the perverseness of human nature, but so it unhappily
> falls out that I can not be entirely of this opinion. No, although I
> were sure that an order were issued out for my immediate arrest by the
> Pynchonoid & Co. thoughtless police, I should still confess that in the
> present I am of the opinion that Pynchonoid & Co. remains a humorless
> asshole with dingle berries dangling.