NP re. fake pics and other hoaxes

[Tim Strzechowski]

Quoth Morris:

> Pardon me, but the bitching was in one direction at the time.  Some wanted
> to read Pale Fire.  Others wanted to read Vineland.  The PF folks never
> objected to the plans of the VL folks.  But there was plenty of bitching
in
> the other direction (but not from you - why take it as if you were the
troll
> I refered to?).
>


Of course Morris has me blocked, so he won't get to read this, but:

As I recall, there were some listers (including David Morris, aka "Ghetta")
who dismissed the notion of a VL read simply because they didn't find it an
engaging read *and/or* because the political climate at the time (Summer,
2003) made it perhaps a touchy subject:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0306&msg=81209&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0306&msg=81247&sort=date

Yet, it seems that perhaps that "bitching" was not quite what Morris wants
us to remember it as, for he states:

"Pardon me, but there's only one person who has strenuously opposed s~Z's
suggestion that we read Pale Fire.  No one has opposed anyone else's group
read."
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0306&msg=81256&sort=date



P-List discourse of old, at its finest . . .
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0306&msg=81353&sort=date



> And I never bitched at your plans to read all those shitty essays (but the
> discussion was generally a non-starter), which happened AFTER PF & VL
ended.
>   You all can do as you what.


I'll cull the archives later to see if *this* holds any water, but in the
meantime . . .