The Rifles: An Excerpt

[umberto rossi]

In data 23 Jun 2004, verso le 8:10, jbor si trovò a scrivere su Re: 
The Rifles: An Excerpt:

> But you do seem to have an awful lot of time to flame other people on the
> list about the World Cup. So it goes I guess.

So you don't realize that a foolish discussion about football is a 
much less seroius matter than discussing Pynchon? Or better, you talk 
about Pynchon the same way you talk about football? When I discuss 
Pynchon I open the books and check on the text. And think. And take 
notes. And check on other books. The works. That takes time. On the 
other hand, to answer the blabbering of certain people about a sport 
they probably don't know much about you don't need reference and 
textual analysis. I hope you can tell the difference between the two 
things, because discussing literature with someone who has a football-
fan attitude to it ain't easy. 

And it wasn't the World Cup.

umberto rossi
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