What Pynchon wrote?
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Fri May 23 16:47:56 CDT 2003
--- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
[snip almost all of an excellent post]
You're doing great, Paul, and I'm enjoying your posts,
but the problem is, PYNCHON-L has not (and has never
been) a place where people collaborate to understand
better Pynchon's works. Some of us try, of course.
Instead, for a few poseurs it's an online game of
Survivor, setting increasingly trivial challenges for
one another, ganging up on one then another through a
shifting set of alliances, back-stabbings, in-yer-face
attacks, gratuitous one-upsmanship. They forced the
SLSL reading to a halt, and have been doing their
damndest to stop the discussion of this Foreword --
just watch, for example, how they keep circling back
to the same set of brain-dead questions centered on
the one or two details that have already been gone
over thoroughly several times, ignoring the other
questions and ideas that have come up.
> I'm not holding my
> breath. [...]
I'm not either.
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