MMV: Context

[Dave Monroe]

As do I, in re: things being a bit stuffy in certain
corners here.  Maybe some cross-ventillation ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> PS I agree with Terrance ...

No, really, Robert, the constant "Pick me, teacher,
I'm ever so smart" thing is, well, one thing, but the
concurrent drive to denigrate everything that doesn't
emanate from you or everyone who doesn't humor,
placate or kowtow to--not to mention agree with--you,
or in whatever way acknowledge yr presumed "genius,"
that's just plain annoying.  Not to mention
counter-productive.  Somebody's gotta say this stuff
...

No, you're a smart guy in a lot of ways, Rob, and I
would note that I'm one of the few, perhaps the only,
one here to note a few of 'em from time to time. 
Sure, you're stuffy, pretentious, even (remember, Rob,
few know better than I do just how easy it is to come
off as an instant expert on everything when yr
online), but I do believe that, by and large, you've
done yr time, and may yet continue to do so, so ...

And I will always appreciate yr efforts to keep the
last M&D reading going, 'cos you know that I know just
how difficult it is to keep something like that up
even for yr avg. two-week hosting stint.  And you know
the extra-special effort I went to for M&D.  The joy
of research.  Future generations will undoubtedly
thank us both.  No, I'm not kidding ...

And that's a nice paper you published in Pynchon
Notes, even though (left-handed compliment alert) it
deploys a certain poetic license you otherwise berate
here, not in the least when I deploy it.  There are
insisputable traces of, say, Baudelaire or Pound, and
likely one of, say, Mario Praz or Frances Yates in
Pynchon, whereas discerning the Patrick White threads
in Those Pynchonian Texts (texere, "to weave")
requires a rather more Magickal Eye than you generally
seem happy to see employed on list ...

But (juggling back to the right hand here), it's still
a nice paper.  Anyone else here read it?  Please do
so.  A side of Our Antipodean Friend we don't often
see here (back to the left? well, okay ...).  You also
have an impressive way with knocking off fairly
well-written and, at least at the level of basic
mechanics (spelling, punctuation, what have you),
error-free dispatches.  You oughtta take up
journalism.  Maybe Doug has some contacts Down Under
...

Remember when you used to harangue me both off and on
list at the same time?  Me, it takes forever for me to
type, even when I know what I want to say, and we all
know i rarely pause to proofread and/or edit, so ...

So, anyway, the saints are not so much for Terrance as
they are for those less Christian, and, esp., Catholic
(we always head right for the cruellest and unusualest
of martyrdoms in those Lives of the Saints, right, Mr.
T?) who might stumble across 'em in Terrance's posts
but are disinclined to open yet another window.  Much,
however, is simply there to be read into the record,
in case somewhere down the line someone might find
some use for it (students, translators, et al.) ...

But, yeah, I don't generally explain why I, say, post
dictionary definitions of certain terms (though here's
a hint, at least on occasion: wordplay) or why I
annotate certain items over and over again, Russian
dolling the previous posts into the later ones (though
here's another hint: recurring elements), but, well, I
do things my way, you do things your way, difference
is, I don't genrally get sniffy about it, is all ...

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