NPPF "You are telling me!"

[pynchonoid]

Considering that the entire Pale Fire discussion is
off-topic on Pynchon-L, jbor's seems a strange "ad
hominem"  (using that term as loosely re jbor as he
uses it with others) attack on an important
participant in same (the off-topic discussion in which
jbor also participates).  

At any rate, Glenn's posts are way more fun and
interesting than jbor's tired retreads of the
Left-bashing hatchet-job on Vineland that he has
offered again and again in this forum over the past
few years. I suspect jbor's just jealous of the scope
of reading that Glenn manages to incorporate and of
the attention that Glenn's posts receive, and I
wouldn't be the first to note jbor's need to control
the discussion here. Also in the context of the
Vineland discussion, it's pretty humorous to hear jbor
complaining that somebody else is twisting an author's
words in a way that does a disservice to the author's
intent, given the way jbor continues an absurd effort
to make Pynchon a neocon critic of the 60's, by taking
out of context and revising what P has written in this
novel.

Please keep up the good work, Glenn; your AF posts
seem, at minimum, an entertaining object lesson in a
kind of "magnificent obsession" that seems to motivate
some of Pynchon's characters, as you pull together
disparate literary threads in an thought-provoking
way. My only request would be that you write about
Pynchon in Pynchon-L, but that's a purely personal
opinion, expressed in an unmoderated forum,
understanding that none of us has been elected
moderator here. 



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