Top Ten Sex Positions

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:27, Joel Katz wrote:
> well, it's your own damn fault.  face it:  pynchon never got anyone laid.  
> borges can probably get you laid, the russians can get you laid, balzac and 
> proust--way laid, shit even lacan if she's got low-self-esteem.  but pynchon 
> is strictly for trekkie types now.
> 
> are there even any women on this list, anymore?  why don't you spread em' 
> out and divvy 'em up?  each woman spends one weekend a year with each 
> hard-up lister.  i mean, half of you guys are probably wheelchair-bound, so 
> we're only talking handjobs and dildo-play, for the most part.  then maybe 
> even a group gathering in kenosha at the ramada.  the men sit in a circle 
> and the women do ass-to-ass.
> 
> i mean, maybe it's only me, but i think pynchon should be a lived 
> experience.  run this by scheper, see what he says.
> 

How can anyone not like this guy?

Yes, Pynchon isn't apt to get you laid. And this is a pity. The question
to ask is: why does Pynchon seem to get expropriated by the trekkies.
Why is it that the non-klingon speakers one knows--the READING
non-trekkies--scarcely seem to know to distinguish our P from that other
reclusive guy?.  Heaven knows there are plenty of priapic episodes in
the p-oeuvre to go around. But . . . .