NPPF "You are telling me!"

[Tim Strzechowski]

I don't consider myself a member of any "fan clubs" (although, in my younger
and more vulnerable years I sent away for Freakies cereal figurines).

http://www.freakies.com/

Glenn offers a "reading" of the text, much as anyone else in this forum
does.  Glenn supports this reading with textual evidence, much as many
others (including you and I) do in this forum.  That you aren't *convinced*
of his "reading" is rather arrogant and presumptuous, no?  Geez, man, I'm
not entirely convinced that VL is "about" WORK, but that doesn't negate the
efforts of Terrance to explore that theme as one of many possible themes.

Your efforts to backpedal and claim "no offense or ill will toward Glenn"
are nice, but considering that your original comment stated:

[...] "I think this constant barrage of AF propaganda does an enormous
disservice to the life and work of these authors and poets."
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0310&msg=86763&sort=date

there's enough loaded language in that single statement, obvious to anyone
here, to demonstate otherwise.

While you may not necessarily owe Glenn an apology, at *least* be a man and
admit the connotations of your statement for what they are.

best



> Just to clarify this. I don't agree that any of the poets or writers
> mentioned practised auto-eroticism, or wrote about auto-eroticism, or
> thought about it when they wrote, or perceived it as a component of their
> aesthetic. And I don't agree that it's present as a reference in any of
> their works.
>
> I meant no offence or ill will towards Glenn, and I'm happy to see that he
> has four new recruits to his AF fan club.
>
> best
>
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