A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon?

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>
>But, yes, the "scare" quotes, the sniffy dismissal of not only the subject 
>at hand, not only the posts on it, not only the subjects posting on it, but 
>everyone who's spent any time on the subject, the ever-so-strange 
>"accusations" of "hero worship" here, if THAT'S not living under the bridge 
>here ...

Pardon me for stating overtly what you admit further down in your post:   
**" I realize I was largely alone in appreciating his efforts there."**   
But stating this observation does not make one a troll (except maybe to you, 
because you were the one who deemed it a worthy subject.  BTW, if you did 
deem me such a creature, you broke the cardinal rule by responding to my 
comments.)

The "scare" quotes also are not the makings of trolls per se.  They quite 
simply denote my opinion of the value of this genre of "witting" on a list 
devoted to fictional literature.  The purpose of this list is for expression 
of opinions, is it not?  So your calling me a troll is really more an 
example of bad behavior on your part than was my expressing my opinion here.

As for the "accusation" of hero worship, it's more accurate to call it a 
conjecture.  I suppose there might be other reasons one might be interested 
in the writings of a technical manual, world-wide considered one of the 
least enjoyable genres in existence.  If the postings you sent of them broke 
that rule then they might have provided a reason to consider them 
interesting, but IMO they don't.


Ghetta

>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I guess these "writings" by Pynchon may be of interest to SOME, but IMHO 
>they and the "Togetherness" stuff Dave posted earlier are only for those 
>with too much time on their hands and too much hero worship of TRP.  And 
>the activity on this list of late attests to their appeal...
>
>I realize I was largely alone in appreciating his efforts there, but ... 
>well, again, it's hardly as if y'all CAN'T talk about whatever you want to 
>talk about, even as each and any one of us does the same ...

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